The Post Earthquake City

Author : Paul Cloke,David Conradson,Eric Pawson,Harvey C. Perkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000839401

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The Post-Earthquake City by Paul Cloke,David Conradson,Eric Pawson,Harvey C. Perkins Pdf

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.

Author : Paul J. Cloke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1032436727

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The Post-earthquake City by Paul J. Cloke Pdf

"This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and renewal', and 'the city in transition'. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred, and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery"--

Author : Kevin McCloud,Sally Blundell,Roger Sutton,Rebecca MacFie,David Sheppard,Gary Franklin
Publisher : Freerange Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780473289409

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Once in a Lifetime by Kevin McCloud,Sally Blundell,Roger Sutton,Rebecca MacFie,David Sheppard,Gary Franklin Pdf

New Zealand has to rebuild the majority of its second-largest city after a devastating series of earthquakes – a unique challenge for a developed country in the twenty-first century. The 2010-2011 earthquakes fundamentally disrupted the conventions by which the people of Christchurch lived. The exhausting and exhilarating mix of distress, uncertainty, creativity, opportunities, divergent opinions and competing priorities generates an inevitable question: how do we know if the right decisions are being made? Once in Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch offers the first substantial critique of the Government’s recovery plan, presents alternative approaches to city-building andarchives a vital and extraordinary time. It features photo and written essays from journalists, economists, designers, academics, politicians, artists, publicans and more. Once in a Lifetime presents a range of national and international perspectives on city-building and post-disaster urban recovery.

Author : F.Y. Cheng,Y.Y. Wang
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080539300

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Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction by F.Y. Cheng,Y.Y. Wang Pdf

Damage assessment, rehabilitation, decision-making, social consequences, repair and reconstruction; these are all critical factors for considerations following natural disasters such as earthquakes. In order to address these issues, the United States of America and the Peoples Republic of China regularly organize bilateral symposia/workshops to investigate multiple hazard mitigation, particularly with respect to earthquake engineering. This book contains state-of-the-art reports presented by world-renowned researchers at the US/PRC Sympsosium Workshop on Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction held in Kunming, Yunnan, China, May 1995. The following key areas are addressed: damage assessment of structures after earthquakes; lessons of post-earthquake recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction, including public policy, land use options, urban planning, and design; issues in and examples of decision-making, and implementation of rehabilitation and reconstruction plans and policies; repair, strengthening, retrofit and control of structures and lifeline systems, post-earthquake socio-economic problems covering issues of relief and recovery; human and organizational behavior during emergency response, and strategies for improvement; real-time monitoring of earthquake response and damage.

Author : C. Michael Hall,Sanna Malinen,Rob Vosslamber,Russell Wordsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317276333

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Business and Post-disaster Management by C. Michael Hall,Sanna Malinen,Rob Vosslamber,Russell Wordsworth Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and on a range of stakeholders, including employees and consumers. Research on how communities and businesses respond to disasters can inform policy and mitigate the cost and impacts of future disasters. This book discusses how places recover following a disaster and the vital roles that business and other organisations play. This volume gives a detailed understanding of business, organisational and consumer responses to the Christchurch earthquake sequence of 2010-2011, which caused 185 deaths, the loss of over 70 per cent of buildings in the city’s CBD, major infrastructure damage, and severely affected the city’s image. Despite the devastation, the businesses, organisations and people of Christchurch are now undergoing significant recovery. The book sheds significant new light not only on business and organisation response to disaster but on how business and urban systems may be made more resilient.

Author : Shinya Uekusa,Steve Matthewman,Bruce C. Glavovic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811668630

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A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch by Shinya Uekusa,Steve Matthewman,Bruce C. Glavovic Pdf

This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that commenced with the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Each contribution tackles its subject matter through the frame of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS). The events and the subsequent recovery provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a series of concatenating urban disasters in order to prepare us for our future on an urban planet facing unprecedented environmental pressures. The book focuses on the production of vulnerability, the human dimensions of disaster, the Indigenous response to disasters and the practical lessons that can be drawn from them.

Author : Laurie A. Johnson,Robert B. Olshansky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Crisis management
ISBN : 1558443312

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After Great Disasters by Laurie A. Johnson,Robert B. Olshansky Pdf

Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This book and its companion Policy Focus Report identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disasters. The authors consider the processes and outcomes of community recovery and reconstruction following major disasters in six countries: China, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States. Post-disaster reconstruction offers opportunities to improve construction and design standards, renew infrastructure, create new land use arrangements, reinvent economies, and improve governance. If done well, reconstruction can help break the cycle of disaster-related impacts and losses, and improve the resilience of a city or region.

Author : David W. Edgington
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0774817569

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Reconstructing Kobe by David W. Edgington Pdf

The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwarJapan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters tostrike a developed country. Although the media focused on thedisaster's immediate effects, the long-term reconstructionefforts have gone largely unexplored. Drawing on extensive fieldwork,David Edgington records the first ten years of reconstruction andrecovery and asks whether planners successfully exploited opportunitiesto make a more sustainable and disaster-proof city. This book isan intricate investigation of one of the largest redevelopment projectsin recent memory.

Author : Pierre Filion,Gary Sands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317166030

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Cities at Risk by Pierre Filion,Gary Sands Pdf

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can affect millions. Even if there is no change in the rate of occurrence of natural disasters (an unlikely prospect in the face of ongoing climate change) the potential for human and economic loss will continue to increase, along with the time required to recover. How do cities prepare for and recover from natural disasters? In this book, the authors provide a broad overview of the issues related to the impacts of disasters on cities around the world, from assessing risks to accounting for damages. The comparative approach across different types of disasters in a range of urban locations is useful in identifying opportunities for policy transfer. While there is no ’one size fits all’ solution to hazard mitigation, valuable lessons can be learned from the experiences of others. The chapters emphasize different modes for assessing hazard risk, as well as strategies for increasing the resiliency of vulnerable populations.

Author : Sinan Akkar,Alper Ilki,Caglar Goksu,Mustafa Erdik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030688134

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Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss by Sinan Akkar,Alper Ilki,Caglar Goksu,Mustafa Erdik Pdf

This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake damage assessment, the state-of-art and novel earthquake loss modeling, their implementation and implication in insurance pricing at national, regional and global levels, and the role of earthquake insurance in building resilient societies and fire following earthquakes. The rich context encompassed in the book makes it a valuable tool not only for professionals and researchers dealing with earthquake loss modeling but also for practitioners in the insurance and reinsurance industry.

Author : SAC Joint Venture. Guidelines Development Committee
Publisher : FEMA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Building, Iron and steel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Recommended Postearthquake Evaluation and Repair Criteria for Welded Steel Moment-frame Buildings by SAC Joint Venture. Guidelines Development Committee Pdf

Author : Bob Parker,Tony Farrington
Publisher : Antares Pub
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Canterbury Earthquake, N.Z., 2010
ISBN : 047321539X

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Ripped Apart by Bob Parker,Tony Farrington Pdf

"Ripped Apart is Mayor Bob Parker's story. During the earthquakes that battered Christchurch, Bob's tireless and unflappable communications gained him almost superstar status. He so impressed the American TV network NBC, it broadcast to the world that New York, after 9/11 had Rudy Giuliani. Christchurch, after 22 February, had Bob Parker. Within a few months of his triumphs the tide appeared to have turned. The Minister of Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee, dubbed him "a clown"; his council was dysfunctional; and Government, not the council, controlled the city's rebuild. Ripped Apart reveals the arguments, indecision, petty jealousies, power struggles and policies that occurred within groups managing the city through its crises. These are balanced with glimpses of dedication, courage, compassion and a unique vision. It is a story about people behind the scenes and events that have Ripped Apart Christchurch, not just physically, but politically and emotionally"--Back cover.

Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857722171

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Cities by Ian Douglas Pdf

Cities are amongst our greatest creations. Yet at the start of the twenty-first century there is increasing concern over their unchecked expansion and the detrimental effect this is having on the planet, as induced climate change and ever increasing demands upon the world's resources take effect. How can we make the world's cities more sustainable? Ian Douglas tells the story of cities - why they exist, how they have evolved, the problems they have encountered and those they will face as our century progresses. Global in geographical coverage, and ranging from the cities of the classical world to the megacities of today, it is the first comprehensive environmental history of cities.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics,Committee on National Earthquake Resilienceâ¬"Research, Implementation, and Outreach
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309186773

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National Earthquake Resilience by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics,Committee on National Earthquake Resilienceâ¬"Research, Implementation, and Outreach Pdf

The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.

Author : Marisa Taylor
Publisher : Taylfin Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0473363410

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Bleak City by Marisa Taylor Pdf

Alice Moorhouse is beginning to find her way as a young woman when her life is disrupted by a series of earthquakes. As she and her family deal with the physical and emotional toll of living in a broken city, their recovery is confounded by greedy insurers determined to protect their profits, bumbling bureaucrats unable to coordinate their efforts and uncaring politicians determined to spin the recovery for their own ends. How does Alice build a life in a devastated city and discover who she really is? Set in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand, Bleak City tells the story of a young woman and her wider family as they contend with the issues and frustrations that followed the quakes. It is a social commentary, taking a critical perspective of the actions of politicians, insurers and community leaders, while encouraging self-reflection on who we want to shape ourselves to be. Although titled Bleak City, it does not see a bleak future for Christchurch, but it does recognise that post-quake life for many people is a struggle.