[DOWNLOAD] Bracing for Disaster: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933
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| #2040812 in Books | Heyday | 2006-04-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .77 x8.04 x9.98l,1.84 | File Name: 1597140252 | 320 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| ....|By Mentor Llunji|History of San Francisco's buildings in relation to their safety in earthquake and fire, documented by an impressive number of earthquake resistant features applied by architects, engineers and builders well before the first mandatory state earthquake code of 1933..It is well written and will surely fascinate readers interested in history of engineering a|About the Author|Stephen Tobriner is a professor of architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on architecture and the history of reconstruction after earthquakes, and has investigated damage in earthquakes aroun
In 1906, San Francisco was destroyed not by the terrible earthquake of April 18, but by the fires that ensued. Yet journalists and historians then--and now--—have been quick to point out the speed and supposed sloppiness with which architects and engineers rebuild San Francisco after every major earthquake. The conventional wisdom holds that corruption prevented proper seismic safety in new buildings. But those presumptions are far too sweeping, according to archi...
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