Browsing The Frederick C. Cuny/INTERTECT Collection by Title
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(INTERTECT, 1975)Loss of life and property as a result of earthquakes can be significantly reduced through appropriate design and construction of structures on relatively safe sites. Structural-seismic factors, topographic factors, and ...
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Sheltering the Urban Poor: Lessons and Strategies of the Mexico City and San Salvador Earthquakes. A large urban earthquake can create sudden, large demands for shelter for the urban poor. Two recent earthquakes - one in Mexico City and the other in San Salvador illustrate the problems that urban planners may face in ...
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(INTERTECT, )Adobe and mud structures, used widely for housing in earthquake prone areas throughout the world, will fail, even in the presence of good design and workmanship, if they are built on poor sites. Structural and seismic ...
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(INTERTECT, )Earthquake disasters leave a country or region with disrupted communications and food supply lines and damaged water supplies, roads, bridges, dwellings, and other structures. The need for rapid engineering and reconstruction ...
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(, 1976-10)This report contains an identification of generally recognized social and economic program components which have been attempted by developing countries in the past with varying degrees of success (Chapter I); a discussion ...
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(, 1976-10)This report contains an identification of generally recognized social and economic program components which have been attempted by developing countries in the past with varying degrees of success (Chapter I); a discussion ...
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Severe food shortages and famines have been reported in Somalia for over a century. Many of these periods have been linked to droughts but there are also other causes. Some observers have noted times when famine-like ...