Short Sharp Shock
SFGate's 15 seconds that changed San Francisco offers some insight into how a city's approach to planning and building after a natural disaster can drastically change the character of space. In six sections, each dedicated to a particular project or area of development or reconstruction, the authors profile the marks that the 1989 Loma Prieta quake left on San Francisco's downtown.
Great post. I did a paper about a year ago about catastrophic events that destroy vast amounts of urbanized land. (The Chicago and London fires, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, and Pompeii). I completely forgot about earthquakes.
As a side note: the American Planning Association conference is in San Fran this March.
Posted by: Nick Helmholdt | 02/07/2005 at 09:42