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The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster / [edited by] Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Urban renewal -- History.

Disasters -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e2n0-aa

0195175840 (alk. paper)

0195175832 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

xiv, 376 p : ill. ; 23 cm.

I: Narratives of resilience -- Making progress: disaster narratives and the art of optimist in modern America / Kevin Rozario -- "The predicament of aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11 / Edward T. Linenthal -- The city's end: past and present narratives of New York's destruction / Max Page -- II: The symbolic dimensions of trauma and recovery -- Patriotism and the reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British invasion of 1814 / Anthony S. Pitch -- Double restoration: rebuilding Berlin after 1945 / Brian Ladd -- Warsaw: reconstruction as propaganda / Jasper Goldman -- A delayed healing: understanding the fragmented resilience of Gernika / Julie B. Kirschbaum and Desirée Sideroff -- Resurrecting Jerusalem / Julian Beinart -- III: The politics of reconstruction -- Resilient Tokyo: disaster and transformation in the Japanese City / Carola Hein -- "Resist the earthquake and rescue ourselves": the reconstruction of Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake / Beatrice Chen -- Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 earthquake and the transformation of the capital / Diane E. Davis -- A vital void: reconstructions of downtown Beirut / Hashim Sarkis -- After the unrest: ten years of rebuilding Los Angeles following the trauma of 1992 / William Fulton -- Cyborg agonistes: disaster and reconstruction in the digital electronic era / William J. Mitchell and Anthony M. Townsend -- Axioms of resilience / Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.

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