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Out of ground zero : case studies in urban reinvention / edited by Joan Ockman.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[New York, N.Y.] : Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University ; Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2002.
Description
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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HT170 .O286 2002
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Urban renewal
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Case studies
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City planning
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Architecture, Modern
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Disasters
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Social aspects
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
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Summary note
The events that took place in New York on 11 September 2001 are the background for this series of essays exploring the response of different cities at different times to natural or man-made disaster. Case studies include the earthquake that shook Lisbon in 1755 and the bombing of Hiroshima.
Notes
"The essays in this volume originated as a series of lectures presented under the auspices of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University in the spring of 2002"--P. 14.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Joan Ockman
Lisbon : the earthquake of 1755 and urban recovery under the Marquês de Pombal / Kenneth Maxwell
Chicago : out of the blue : the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 / Ross Miller
Hiroshima : the atomic bomb and Kenzo Tange's Hiroshima Peace Center / Carola Hein
Rotterdam : the promise of a new, modern society in a new, modern city, 1940 to the present / Han Meyer
Plymouth : reconstruction after World War II / Alan Powers
Berlin : film and the representation of urban reconstruction since the fall of the Wall / Hubertus Siegert and Ralph Stern
Balkan cities : urbicide and chances for the reconstruction of Balkan cities / Milan Prodanovic
Jerusalem : the symbolism of the Dome of the Rock from the seventh century to the present / Kanan Makiya
New York : creatively destroying New York : fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city / Max Page
Epilogue : an architecture of liberty? : the city as democracy's forge / Benjamin R. Barber.
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ISBN
3791327909 ((paperback))
9783791327907 ((paperback))
LCCN
2002109070
OCLC
50434312
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