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Exploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.

Table of Contents
Contents
Preface: This Dynamic Culture of Learning
E. Thomas Sullivan
Introduction: University Voices in the Community
Patrick Nunnally
Part I. The Bridge: Object, Metaphor, Process
1. Fracture-Critical: The I-35W Bridge Collapse as Metaphor and Omen
Thomas Fisher
2. The Infamous Gusset Plates
Roberto Ballarini and Minmao Liao
3. Building the New Bridge: Process and Politics in City-Building
Patrick Nunnally
Part II. The City: Neighborhoods and Transportation
4. Neighborhoods Confront a Disaster Aftermath
Judith A. Martin
5. From Here to There to Nowhere: Competing Philosophies of Planning
Roger Miller
Part III. The River: After the Collapse
6. A Fickle Partner: Minneapolis and the Mississippi River
John O. Anfinson
7. A Bridge to Somewhere
Mark Pedelty, Heather Dorsey, and Melissa Thompson
8. Old Man River
Deborah L. Swackhamer
Conclusion: Reimagining the Mississippi
Patrick Nunnally
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9780816667673, 978-0816667673
      ISBN10: 0816667675
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Exploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.

      Table of Contents
      Contents
      Preface: This Dynamic Culture of Learning
      E. Thomas Sullivan
      Introduction: University Voices in the Community
      Patrick Nunnally
      Part I. The Bridge: Object, Metaphor, Process
      1. Fracture-Critical: The I-35W Bridge Collapse as Metaphor and Omen
      Thomas Fisher
      2. The Infamous Gusset Plates
      Roberto Ballarini and Minmao Liao
      3. Building the New Bridge: Process and Politics in City-Building
      Patrick Nunnally
      Part II. The City: Neighborhoods and Transportation
      4. Neighborhoods Confront a Disaster Aftermath
      Judith A. Martin
      5. From Here to There to Nowhere: Competing Philosophies of Planning
      Roger Miller
      Part III. The River: After the Collapse
      6. A Fickle Partner: Minneapolis and the Mississippi River
      John O. Anfinson
      7. A Bridge to Somewhere
      Mark Pedelty, Heather Dorsey, and Melissa Thompson
      8. Old Man River
      Deborah L. Swackhamer
      Conclusion: Reimagining the Mississippi
      Patrick Nunnally
      Acknowledgments
      Contributors
      Index

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