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Bracing for disaster : earthquake-resistant architecture and engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933 / Stephen Tobriner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Bancroft Library, University of California : Heyday Books, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xvii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1597140252
  • 9781597140256
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 624.17620979461 22
LOC classification:
  • TA658.44 .T53 2006
Contents:
Location, location, location -- Fire, a compelling danger, 1849-1851 -- Earthquakes, weighing the danger, 1863/1869 -- Innovation: "earthquake-proof" systems, 1868-1880 -- Earthquake-resistant construction, 1889-1905 -- What really happened in the great earthquake of April 18, 1906 -- The fire, April 18-21, 1906 -- Assessment of damage in the 1906 earthquake: a centennial perspective -- The fire did it: recovery, reconstruction, and insurance, 1906-1910 -- Fire Codes, 1906-1915 -- New earthquake codes -- A tale of two water systems -- San Francisco, the phoenix rising, 1906-1915 -- Reality replaces my63705786th, 1925-1933.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 624.17620979461 TOB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A426558B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.

Location, location, location -- Fire, a compelling danger, 1849-1851 -- Earthquakes, weighing the danger, 1863/1869 -- Innovation: "earthquake-proof" systems, 1868-1880 -- Earthquake-resistant construction, 1889-1905 -- What really happened in the great earthquake of April 18, 1906 -- The fire, April 18-21, 1906 -- Assessment of damage in the 1906 earthquake: a centennial perspective -- The fire did it: recovery, reconstruction, and insurance, 1906-1910 -- Fire Codes, 1906-1915 -- New earthquake codes -- A tale of two water systems -- San Francisco, the phoenix rising, 1906-1915 -- Reality replaces my63705786th, 1925-1933.

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