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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
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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
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
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2019)
Subject San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
Earthquakes -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
1900 - 1999.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Earthquakes -- Environmental aspects
Earthquakes -- Social aspects
Ecology
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Urban ecology (Sociology)
SUBJECT San Francisco (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject California
California -- San Francisco
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017012222
ISBN 9780295742472
029574247X