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 | Planning for Disaster: How Natural and Manmade Disasters Shape the Built Environment
Author: William Ramroth
Publisher: Kaplan Business
Year: 2007
ISBN 1419593730
| List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $19.95
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Category: Urban Planning / History /
ArchitectureWeek Description
The way city planners, architects, engineers, and politicians plan and design cities, buildings, and infrastructure has been fashioned to some degree as a reaction to disasters. This book traces the effect of natural and manmade disasters on urban planning, design, and engineering. Special attention to the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989), the Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), the 9/11 Terrorist Attack (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), as well as catastrophic events of earlier centuries. Amazon Customer Average Rating: 
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