And though crime has dropped, suburban-style ranch houses have risen from rubble, and hundreds of new stores including a Macy's and a Target are opening in the borough, the first question that many prospective companies ask is whether it is safe to do business in the Bronx.
Barr's starting point is the night in October 1984 when Mrs Thatcher's escape from the bombs planted in her Brighton hotel dominated the television news ("this blonde woman rises from rubble again and again like a Cyberman off Dr Who").
Dust and smoke rose from the rubble which included smashed toilet bowls, bathroom of smashed sinks and furniture amid demolished ceilings and walls.
Background: The Arena Fonte Nova rose from the rubble of its predecessor, with 92% of the debris from demolition used to construct the brand new venue.
The neurological building was reduced to little more than a frame, and small wisps of smoke rose from the rubble.
The murals are the only warm touch on an otherwise bleak stretch tucked between the Sheridan Expressway and townhouses that rose from the rubble of 1980s abandonment.
Survivors rose from the rubble of their homes, offices and stores with the satisfied smile of survival -- in war, its own victory.
The home that eventually rose from the rubble represents, Mr. Legiardi-Laura said, "an organic evolution based on necessity and availability".
Flooring the accelerator, she praises Syriza, the leftwing Greek group that rose from the rubble of the country's ruined economy and is a reference point for her manifesto for a radical approach to building an independent Catalonia.
Mr. Ludvigsen's precise writing style often reveals his engineering background, but he also brings alive the human side of the Porsche and Piëch families, as well as the talented staff and the procession of entrepreneurs, race drivers and politicos who contributed to the unlikely success of a company that rose from the rubble of World War II.
