Narratives of resilience -- Making progress: disaster narratives and the art of optimist in modern America -- "The predicament of aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11 -- The city's end: past and present narratives of New York's destruction -- The symbolic dimensions of trauma and recovery -- Patriotism and the reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British invasion of 1814 -- Double restoration: rebuilding Berlin after 1945 -- Warsaw: reconstruction as propaganda -- A delayed healing: understanding the fragmented resilience of Gernika -- Resurrecting Jerusalem -- The politics of reconstruction -- Resilient Tokyo: disaster and transformation in the Japanese City -- "Resist the earthquake and rescue ourselves": the reconstruction of Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake -- Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 earthquake and the transformation of the capital -- A vital void: reconstructions of downtown Beirut -- After the unrest: ten years of rebuilding Los Angeles following the trauma of 1992 -- Cyborg agonistes: disaster and reconstruction in the digital electronic era -- Axioms of resilience.
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