Why New York Will Survive

"Amid all the losses after last month's terrorist attacks, there is a feeling that the city has lost its compass and its map to the future, too. But there is also a deep and substantial body of scholarship about how cities work in times of catastrophe, and how humans make decisions through the tumult of crisis and its aftermath... Cities, by and large ? with plenty of room for caveats and special circumstances, researchers say ? tend to be stubbornly resilient. The long- term historic momentum of a metropolis, as a collective human creation of ambition and energy, is a force that is far more powerful than the short-term chaos of disaster, however horrific or heartbreaking."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan