The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort was one of the largest humanitarian program…
The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort was one of the largest humanitarian program…
"Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to help the world's most fragile post-civil war countries today build viable states that can provide for security and deliver the basic services essential for development. Tracing the historical roots of statebuilding to the present d…
Was Britain's postwar rebuilding the height of midcentury chic or the concrete embodiment of Crap Towns? John Grindrod decided to find out how blitzed, slum-ridden and crumbling 'austerity Britain' became, in a few short years, a space-age world of concrete, steel and glass. On …
Essays consider the recovery of lower Manhattan after the destruction of the World Trade Center, looking back on New York's position as a financial and cultural capital and examining the forces that will shape the future of the World Trade Center site.
Essays consider the recovery of lower Manhattan after the destruction of the World Trade Center, looking back on New York's position as a financial and cultural capital and examining the forces that will shape the future of the World Trade Center site.
Following the devastation of the war in Bosnia, the European Union formed the European Union Administration of Mostar (EUAM) and John Yarwood ? a widely experienced architect, town planner and project manager ? worked as Director of Reconstruction for EUAM for the whole of the p…
Was religion a friend or foe in the post-conflict statebuilding endeavors of Iraq and Afghanistan? An under-explored area in academia and policy circles alike, religious institutions are important non-state actors that wield considerable influence and can draw upon extensive res…
Introduction : rebuilding as an urban identification project -- Wartime destruction and historical identification -- Local victory over Moscow : planning for the future -- Accommodation : bringing life to the rubble -- Agitation : rewriting the urban biography in stone -- Persis…
Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story o…
