In the ruins of the village of Quyzhak the FFM interviewed three men extracting scrap metal among the ruins.

Japan s Rubble Economy

There were ruins on the outskirts of the villages.

Rebuilding the Ruins of Qaddafi

Whole villages and townships are heaps of rubble.

It's downtowns becoming ghost towns.

After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

The town of Jebrail is totally uninhabited and in complete ruins.

The percentage of ruins increases towards the edges of town.

Some six houses in Mollalar were built on ruins these generally had scrap metal roofs and barns nearby also built on ruins.

Kubatly town and many villages are in ruins.

David Rockwell builds at Ground Zero

But among the ruins and the despair, there was hope and determination.

This Organization was born out of the ruins of the empire of the Third Reich.

And six months after the fact and only a few months away from the site being cleaned we are very quickly, now, getting to the point where those conversations about what should go there are getting serious.

Do you have having been as physically involved in the site as you have been doing this project have any ideas about what should or shouldn't be done?

And there was no way to deal with the traffic around the site.

The new houses were nestled among the ruins of some twenty other houses.

Fizuli town is now in total ruins and almost completely empty.

Indeed, aside from fiscal issues, disposal of rubble is the greatest obstacle preventing reconstruction after natural disasters everywhere. The rubble produced in the Great Hanshin Earthquake was equivalent to the amount that Japan normally processes in roughly eight years.

All of them appear to have been built on the ruins of former dwellings.

There was a school, PS 234, that had been evacuated down at Ground Zero.

Most of the houses were built on ruins, but had been well restored.

Many houses in these villages further away from the road are in ruins.

Houses have undergone basic rehabilitation amidst many ruins.

There was significant evidence of the extraction of construction materials, firewood, metals of all kinds.

The entire town of Agdam is in complete ruins with the exception of the mosque in the center.

emergency repairs (executed in a haphazard, makeshift or provisional manner, using material from nearby ruins) to

The war left the European continent, in the words of one historian, a landscape with ruins .

Throughout these two districts, the FFM has seen the evidence of the extraction of materials from ruins and infrastructure, including water pipes, metal scraps, bricks and stones.

The city of Palu, which has more than 380,000 people, was strewn with debris from collapsed buildings.

no intervention with the settlement infrastructure (village in ruins and no habitation) to

Strong aftershocks continue to plague the area and many are trapped in debris in the city of Palu.

There's a new place in New York where the crowds are thickest Ground Zero.

Unlike the relatively rapid cleanup after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, only 5 of the total amount of rubble created by last year s disaster has been processed so far. Temporary sites for rubble in affected areas are being piled with the remnants of building materials and domestic appliances and furnishings, creating little mountains here and there, as rules on recycling instituted since 1995 require sorting waste by material.

Nevertheless, with the exception of the special circumstances caused by the Fukushima catastrophe, Japan is hardly the only country with a mess to clean up before it can reconstruct. Thailand, which earlier this year suffered prolonged flooding, is also facing the need to dispose of rubble as it works to rebuild.

There was a way there had to be a way to get people to move around the site.

They explained that their house in Stepanakert Khankendi was still in ruins from the war.

It is reported that dozens of people are still trapped beneath the ruins of a hotel and a shopping mall in Palu.

New settlements were being planned on the rubble of Arab villages destroyed by the occupation forces.

In 2005, too many parts of our shared world still resemble the landscape with ruins that was Europe 60 years ago.

We explore ruins of Palestinian villages, and we discuss how they became ruins.

Because when we looked at the four platforms around the site, one of which is an upgrade of the families' platform, we knew that these had to be moveable to respond to changing conditions, and the changing definition of what Ground Zero is.

Reconstruction constitutes a special kind of public works project. The disposal of rubble, given its labor intensive character, has a particularly marked effect on job creation, at least in the short term.

So, it was his generation of diplomats and leaders that established the United Nations out of the ashes of war six decades ago.