New initiative will respond to the deeply human challenge of rebuilding after blight or catastrophe
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:50
in Mathematics & Economics
San Francisco was nearly wiped off the map by earthquake and fire in 1906, yet residents seized on the disaster as an opportunity to rebuild and expand. Warsaw lost 85 percent of all its structures in World War II, but today it is Poland's largest city. Even nuclear devastation could not eradicate Hiroshima; the city regained its prewar population in just 10 years.