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

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

xiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Revealing how traumatized city-dwellers consistently develop narratives of resilience and how the pragmatic process of urban recovery is always fueled by highly symbolic actions, The resilient city offers an informative tribute to the persistence of the city, and indeed of the human spirit. --book cover.

Urban renewal -- History.

Disasters -- History.

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-K

Campanella, Thomas J.

Includes bibliographical references.

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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