Textbook Discounter: Architecture: Bracing for Disaster: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933

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Bracing for Disaster: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933
	Author: Stephen Tobriner Publisher: Heyday Books Category: Book List Price: ~~$30.00~~ Buy New: $1.99 You Save: $28.01 (93%) New (23) Used (14) from $1.99 Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 577179 Media: Paperback Pages: 320 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8 Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 ISBN: 1597140252 Dewey Decimal Number: 624.17620979461 EAN: 9781597140256 ASIN: 1597140252 Publication Date: April 1, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: New Edition. Excellent Condition! Fast & Reliable Shipment with FREE Delivery Confirmation # via Email! Professional Customer Service. Guaranteed Purchase. Expedited Shipping Available for $2-3 more! Paperback.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description In 1906, San Francisco was destroyed not by the terrible earthquake of April 18, but by the fires that ensued. Yet journalists and historians thenand nowhave 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 architecture and earthquake scholar Stephen Tobriner. In fact, for the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer models of earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is the first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco. In the language of a skilled teacher, Tobriner examines what really happened in the citys earthquakeswhich buildings were damaged, which survived, and who were the unsung heroesin a fresh appraisal of a city responding to repeated devastation. Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, Bracing for Disaster is a revealing look at the history of buildings by a true expert, and it offers lessons not just for San Francisco but for any city beset by natural disasters.