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Spectacular reconstructions: Ways of seeing and the politics of recovery in American urban disasters
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Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Résiliences urbaines. Les villes face aux catastrophes
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De Pompéi à Fukushima, les villes sont confrontées de manière récurrente à des catastrophes. Elles y font face, chacune à leur manière, rares…
Paradoxes de l'urbanisation : pourquoi les catastrophes n'empêchent-elles pas l'urbanisation ?
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Comment peut-on comprendre que l'urbanisation contemporaine s'intensifie en dépit de la multiplication des catastrophes et des limites des efforts de gestion ?
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Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world
Abstract from the publisher: In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume,…
Habiter les territoires à risques
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Depuis quelques années émerge, au-delà des frontières disciplinaires des sciences sociales, un nouvel intérêt pour la question de l’impact territorial des…
Crucibles of hazard: Mega-cities and disasters in transition
Abstract from the publisher: As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific…
Cities: The international journal of urban policy and planning (Vol. 29, Supplement 1)
Extract from the Editorial: You are reading the first issue of Current Research on Cities... The first four issues will all be supplements to the journal Cities, prior to an independent launch in 2014. Although Current Research on Cities has much…
Cities under siege: September 11th and after. City (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Extract from the section introduction by Bob Catterall: The image of a siege suggested itself as we first began on the 13th of September to explore with others the meanings of the attacks, and their implications for policy and action, on New York…