Out of ground zero : case studies in urban reinvention / edited by Joan Ockman.

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English
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[New York, N.Y.] : Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University ; Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2002.
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207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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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.
      ISBN
      • 3791327909 ((paperback))
      • 9783791327907 ((paperback))
      LCCN
      2002109070
      OCLC
      50434312
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