I don’t know about writing or research on the subject but I live in a city in western Poland. In some sense you could say we are still “rebuilding” today. Much of the brick extracted from the rubble was from what I know, used as building material in the 50’s and 60’s. Near to where I live, there is a rectangular hill, some 6-7 stories tall and there is a large park on it. It’s pretty huge. It’s made up of all the rubble that was cleared from the area (which was a large neighborhood that was 99% destroyed during Soviet siege/offensive in 1944). Rebuilding cities after wars takes forever.
A small example would be the main church of Dresden[1], in what was Eastern Germany. Destroyed by the allied bombings of 1945, it was left as rubble[2] in the middle of town all through communist rule. The rebuild was completed in 2005.
Rebuilding entire cities is another thing altogether. And even if there is a new city built where the old one was standing, so much history has been lost.
