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Dead Cities/Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention
Architecture News - May 08, 2008 - 15:34 4746 views
After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, a new city rose in place of theold one almost as quickly as everything had burned to the ground.Developers, bankers, and even the city government were so excited toget their hands on the 1,800 destroyed city blocks and start rebuildingthat there was no time to waste building a memorial or even prosecutingthose responsible for the conflagration.
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