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Author Dyl, Joanna Leslie, 1973- author.

Title Seismic city : an environmental history of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake / Joanna L. Dyl.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017.

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Edition 1st edition.
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Summary "Seismic City argues that the disaster of 1906 must be understood as part of the ordinary relationship between the city and its natural surroundings. Despite its short-term drama and immediate impact on people's lives, the 1906 earthquake and fire did not transform the history of San Francisco. Instead, San Franciscans rapidly incorporated the crisis into pre-existing debates about urban ecology, urban development, and social relations in the city. In the modern era, Americans have generally viewed 'natural' disasters as anomalous, exceptional events. Interpreting disasters as unpredictable 'acts of nature' that represent a disruption of ordinary life has justified a failure to adequately plan for disasters and concealed the ways in which social factors such as poverty play as much of a role in causing disasters as the geological or meteorological events that precipitate crises. By applying these insights to a close study of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, including the decades leading up to the disaster and the city's recovery in the years after 1906, this project demonstrates how disaster and recovery became integrated into San Francisco's history, rather than transforming the city, and makes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of natural disaster studies"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Making land, making a city -- Catastrophe and its interpretations -- Bread lines and earthquake cottages -- Rebuilding and the politics of place -- Disaster capitalism in the streets -- Plague, rats, and undesirable nature -- Symbolic recovery and the legacies of disaster -- Note on archival sources.
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Subject San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (California : 1906)
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
Earthquakes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Earthquakes -- Environmental aspects.
California -- San Francisco.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Earthquakes.
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects.
Natural disasters.
Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Earthquakes -- Social aspects.
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Natural disasters -- Social aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dyl, Joanna Leslie, 1973- Seismic city. 1st edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017 9780295742465 (DLC) 2017007242 (OCoLC)975270295
ISBN 9780295742472 (electronic book)
029574247X (electronic book)
9780295742465 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0295742461