The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster / [edited by] Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.
Material type: Computer filePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xiv, 376 p : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0195175832 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0195175840 (alk. paper)
- How modern cities recover from disaster [Portion of title]
- 307.3/416/09 22
- HT170 .R46 2005
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 307.341609 RES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 900189623 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Pt I. Narratives of resilience. 1. Making progress: disaster narratives and the art of optimism in modern America / Kevin Rozario -- 2. "The predicament of aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11 / Edward T. Linenthal -- 3. The city's end: past and present narratives of New York's destruction / Max Page -- Pt II. The symbolic dimensions of trauma and recovery. 4. Patriotism and the reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British invasion of 1814 / Anthony S. Pitch -- 5. Double restoration: rebuilding Berlin after 1945 / Brian Ladd -- 6. Warsaw: reconstruction as propaganda / Jasper Goldman -- 7. A delayed healing: understanding the fragmented resilience of Gernika / Julie B. Kirschbaum and Desirée Sideroff -- 8. Resurrecting Jerusalem / Julian Beinart --
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