Cities Under Pressure: A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction

Introduction p.12, 1. Global Challenges p.24, The City in the Risk Society p.26, Urbicide and Violence p.28, Conflict Recurrence p.29, Disasters and Climate Change p.40, Social and Economic Risks p.46, 2. Historical Experiences p.52, Reassessing Reconstruction p.54, Transformation Map p.55, Classifying Reconstruction p.60, Unprecedented Scale of Destruction p.76, 3. Strategy p.80, Top Down / Bottom Up p.82, Cataclysmic Credit / Gradual Credit p.83, Layers / Cells p.88, Project / Process p.104, Reconstruction Laboratory p.105, Operational Phases p.108, 4. Sustainable Transition p.12, Exporting the Historical Core p.114, The Leap Forward p.115, Decentralized Model p.121, Adaptive Circularity p.124, 5. Explorations p.136, Settlement Principle as a Chance for Urban Metamorphosis / VENEZIA p.138, Urban Triggers in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction / LIMA p.144, The Reconstruction of Small Size /ALEPPO p.150, Souks as Urban Catalysts /MOSUL p.156, From Hazard to Opportunity: The Controlled Flooding Strategy / NILE DELTA p.162, Design without a Design ACCRA p.168, Piecemeal Planning at Work / IRPIN p.174, 6. Design p.180, Urban Restoration p.182, Urban Triggers p.188, Backbones p.190, Induced Design p.196, Growing Evolutionary Mechanisms p.200, Bibliography Credits p.206