e-Book: Prerequisites for Post-Disaster Regeneration of Historic Cities

Cities are complex interconnected social, economic, political and ecological systems. Dealing with disasters, enhancing resilience and managing urban reconstruction and recovery require decision makers to understand these interdependent processes and their interactions. Doing so in a historic landscape adds significantly to complexity. In practice, making sense of such complexities is easier said than done. There is a need for multi-perspective and multidisciplinary study of cases, listening to different voices and trying new approaches and tools to deal with them. This publication offers an opening to such explorations by connecting the built environment, heritage and disasters. Disasters referred in this book are twofold. Most of them originate in natural hazards such as earthquakes, but they also address ‘human induced disasters’ like deliberate destruction or destructive consequences as a result of development. These calamities are indeed devastating for the built environment, heritage and most of all society and have to be treated accordingly as disasters...                                 - Introduction, p.1