| Acknowledgments | 5 |
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| Contents | 7 |
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| List of Illustrations | 9 |
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| Chapter One | 11 |
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| Introduction | 13 |
| Air War and Representation | 20 |
| Rubble Models and the Ruins Code | 29 |
| This Book | 37 |
| Chapter Two | 43 |
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| Rubble City, Frankfurt | 47 |
| The Memory of Material Loss | 52 |
| Modeling the Past, Present, and Future | 59 |
| Monumental Efforts | 73 |
| Chapter Three | 91 |
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| Cities as Models in Munich | 95 |
| A Rare and Marvellous Object | 97 |
| Visual Technologies of Urban Space | 101 |
| Modeling Bavaria | 104 |
| Mastery through Models and the Lathe | 114 |
| The Politics of Urbanism | 122 |
| Chapter Four | 137 |
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| Schwetzingen’s Built Ruins | 141 |
| Fascination with Ruins | 143 |
| Arcadia on the Rhine | 154 |
| Miniature Ruins | 172 |
| Chapter Five | 181 |
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| From Rubble to Ruins in Heilbronn and Elsewhere | 185 |
| Modeling Urban Destruction | 190 |
| Shaping Public Commemoration | 204 |
| From Commemoration to Historicization | 226 |
| Epilogue | 243 |
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| Scaling Hiroshima | 245 |
| In Conclusion | 267 |
| Bibliography | 273 |
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| Archives | 273 |
| Periodicals | 273 |
| Print Publications | 273 |
| Movies | 301 |
| Online Sources | 301 |
| Index | 303 |
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