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Oct 12, 2023 · Architects and urban planners are now exploring alternatives that rethink stormwater as a resource rather than a hazard, incorporating it into the ecosystem of the city.
Sep 21, 2017 · An expert in post-disaster reconstruction explains what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to rebuilding a city.
- Alfredo Stein Heinemann
Sep 2, 2020 · Calamity can stir us from the trance of complacency and force us to ask first-principle questions about the world: What is a community for? How is it put together? What are its basic needs?
Nov 6, 2023 · Natural forms and systems have long demonstrated resilience to disturbances by adapting to changing conditions and maintaining their structure, function, and identity along similar notions....
Following the Tainan earthquake in the island's south-west in 2016, when a 17-storey high-rise collapsed killing dozens, five people involved in the building's construction were prosecuted and...
Aug 14, 2012 · As the firm Control Risks states in its RISKMAP 2011, “The concentration of human, physical, and financial capital in cities renders them especially vulnerable to both immediate devastation and...
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Some of that is true (although the story probably doesn’t involve a cow) but the significance of the fire for Chicago is much greater even than the tremendous loss of life and property that it caused. Find out what Chicago looked like before the fire and how it was forever changed afterwards.
