On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — ear

The accelerated, and often uncontrolled, growth of the cities has contributed to the ecological transformation of their immediate surroundings. Factors contribu

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty

​The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects deal

James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through Wor