Reconstruction may refer to:

Politics, history, and sociology

* Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *''

Perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union political movement *

Critical reconstruction Critical Reconstruction is a theory of architecture and urbanism originally developed by the Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues. It was first applied in Berlin's International Building Exhibition in the 1980s, and was subsequently used in the ...

, an architectural theory related to the reconstruction of Berlin after the end of the Berlin Wall * Economic reconstruction * Ministry of Reconstruction, a UK government department *The

Reconstruction era The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...

of the United States, the period after the Civil War, 1865–1877 ** The Reconstruction Acts, or Military Reconstruction Acts, addressing requirements for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union *

Reconstruction Finance Corporation The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was a government corporation administered by the United States Federal Government between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgag ...

, a United States government agency from 1932–1957

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Reconstruction'' (1968 film), a Romanian tragicomedy * ''Reconstruction'' (2001 film), about the 1959 Ioanid Gang bank heist in Romania * ''Reconstruction'' (2003 film), a Danish psychological romantic drama

Music

* Reconstruction (band), featuring Jerry Garcia, Nick Kahner and John Kahn * ''Reconstruction'' (Hugh Masekela album), 1970 * ''Reconstruction'' (Max Romeo album), 1977 * ''Reconstructions'' (Don Diablo album) * ''Reconstructions'' (Kerry Livgren album)

Television

* "Reconstruction" (''Jericho'' episode) *'' Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction'', a machinima comedy series

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Reconstruction'' (magazine), a monthly edited by Allan L. Benson from 1919 to 1921 * ReConStruction, a 2010 science fiction convention * Memorial reconstruction, a hypothesis regarding the transcription of 17th-century plays

Science and computing

3D reconstruction In computer vision and computer graphics, 3D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects. This process can be accomplished either by active or passive methods. If the model is allowed to change its shape i ...

in computer vision * Ancestral reconstruction, the analysis of organisms' relationships via genome data * Cone beam reconstruction, a computational microtomography method * Crime reconstruction * Event reconstruction, the interpretation of signals from a particle detector * Forensic facial reconstruction, the process of recreating the face of an individual from its skeletal remains * Iterative reconstruction, methods to construct images of objects ** Reconstruction algorithm, an algorithm used in iterative reconstruction * Reconstruction conjecture, in graph theory * Reconstructive plastic surgery * Shooting reconstruction * Signal reconstruction, the determination of an original continuous signal from samples * Single particle reconstruction, the combination of multiple images of molecules to produce a three-dimensional image * Surface reconstruction, the process which alters atomic structure in crystal surfaces * Tomographic reconstruction * Vector field reconstruction, the creation of a vector field from experimental data

Other uses

3D sound reconstruction 3D sound reconstruction is the application of reconstruction techniques to 3D sound localization technology. These methods of reconstructing three-dimensional sound are used to recreate sounds to match natural environments and provide spatial cues o ...

* Reconstruction (architecture), the act of rebuilding a destroyed structure * Linguistic reconstruction