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By Lawrence J. Vale, Thomas J. Campanella

ISBN-10: 0195175840

ISBN-13: 9780195175844

In 1871, the town of Chicago was once nearly totally destroyed by way of what turned referred to as the nice fireplace. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or think of the case of the Jerusalem, the best website of actual destruction and renewal in historical past, which, over 3 millennia, has suffered wars, earthquakes, fires, twenty sieges, eighteen reconstructions, and at the least 11 transitions from one non secular religion to a different. but this old urban has regenerated itself repeatedly, and nonetheless endures. all through heritage, towns were sacked, burned, torched, bombed, flooded, besieged, and leveled. And but they mainly upward thrust from the ashes to rebuild. Viewing a wide range of city failures in worldwide ancient standpoint, The Resilient urban lines the aftermath of such cataclysms as: - the British invasion of Washington in 1814 - the devastation wrought on Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo in the course of international battle II - the late-20th century earthquakes that shattered Mexico urban and the chinese language urban of Tangshan - la after the 1992 riots - the Oklahoma urban bombing - the destruction of the area exchange CenterRevealing how traumatized city-dwellers continually increase narratives of resilience and the way the pragmatic means of city restoration is usually fueled through hugely symbolic activities, The Resilient urban deals a deeply informative and unsentimental tribute to the dogged patience of town, and certainly of the human spirit."

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47 This outlook (fatalistic, hard-bitten) is characteristic of workingclass responses to calamity, highlighting the class-bound nature of official progress narratives. But the disillusionment is also symptomatic of a cautious and skeptical (perhaps postmodern) mood, in which many Americans seem to be losing the plot, no longer convinced that reversals are instruments of progress. This note of introspection certainly shaped the reconstruction debates. New York governor George E. 48 The sentiment behind this restriction, and the political climate sustaining it, offers a striking contrast to the “reckless goaheaditiveness” displayed at Chicago 130 years before.

14 While economic, environmental, and political factors played priMaking Progress 31 mary roles in determining the reconstruction of Chicago and San Francisco, the narrative imagination also made an essential contribution to the rebuilding. There is something singularly apt in Harvey’s choice of words: “the earthquake . . ” Harvey was typical in treating the San Francisco disaster as an episode in a story rather than as a random event or as a fleeting spectacle. It was not just any story but one with a dependably happy ending.

This reliance on urban design as an index of resurrected power is one part of the broader political agenda of urban resilience. , in 1814. , after the British Invasion of 1814,” demonstrates the clear appeal of symbolic targets to would-be attackers. Pitch reveals how the British invaders carefully chose to plunder precisely those buildings that bore the greatest symbolic importance to the upstart republic: the White House, Capitol, State and War departments, and the Treasury. In the wake of the attack, Washington nearly lost its raison d’eˆtre, as Philadelphia, New York, Lancaster, and other cities vied for the honor of becoming the national capital.

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