Planning for Disaster How Natural and Manmade Disasters Shape the Built Environment 1st Edition by William Ramroth ISBN 978-1419593734 1419593730
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ISBN 10: 1419593730
ISBN 13: 978-1419593734
Author: William Ramroth
Disasters, throughout the ages, have shaped the built environment. The way city planners, architects, engineers and politicians plan and design cities, buildings, highways, tunnels and bridges have all been fashioned to some degree by the mischievous hands of disasters. Planning for Disaster will trace the impact of natural and manmade disasters on urban planning, building design and the design of large-scale engineering projects such as bridges, tunnels and levees. The book will reference recent disasters such as the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989), the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), the 9/11 Terrorist Attack (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as catastrophic events from history such as the burning of Rome in AD 64, the London fire of 1666, the New York fire of 1835, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Planning for Disaster will include approximately 25 illustrations (photographs and figures) in support of the text.
Table of contents:
1. It Takes a Disaster I
The Pragmatic Process of Disaster Planning
Architecture Matters
Disaster, Codes and Regulations
Water: Another Source for Disaster
Impact of the Natural Elements
2. Fire
The Great Fire of Rome
The Great Fire of London
The Great Chicago Fire
3. Codes
London’s Earliest Building Code
The Iroquois Theater Fire
The Great Baltimore Fire
New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
4. Overcrowding
The Garden City
The Tenement Reform Movement
The City Beautiful Movement
5. Earthquake
The San Francisco Earthquakes of 1865 and 1868
The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake
The 1933 Long Beach Earthquake
Earthquake in Loma Prieta
The Northridge Earthquake
Designing for Earthquakes
6. Wind and Water
The Formation of Hurricanes
The Great Storm
The 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
1965 Hurricane Betsy
1992 Hurricane Andrew
Tsunamis
Tsunami Warning Systems
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning System
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Lessons from Tsunamis
7. Disasters of Another Kind
Economic Disasters
The Social Disaster of Pruitt-Igoe
Structural Disasters
8. World Trade Center
Investigation of the Tragedy
Lessons and Recommendations
9. Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans
Biloxi, Mississippi
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans in the Aftermath
The Mississippi Gulf Coast
New Orleans’s Levees
Rebuilding New Orleans
10. Learning from Disasters
Another Disaster Looms
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