Bracing for Disaster : (Record no. 19249)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781597143288 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781597140256 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC6261231 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL6261231 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1202449640 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | TH1095 |
| Item number | .T637 2006 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 624.1/7620979461 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tobriner, Stephen. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Bracing for Disaster : |
| Remainder of title | Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Heyday, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2006. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (472 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Location, Location, Location -- Earthquakes in the Old World and the New -- The San Andreas Fault -- The Founding of San Francisco -- The Flattening and Filling of San Francisco -- Early Earthquakes -- San Francisco's First Earthquake-Resistant Building? -- Disaster and The Specter of Economic Decline -- 2. Fire, a Compelling Danger, 1849-1851 -- Responses to Disaster -- San Francisco at Midcentury -- The First Fire, December 24, 1849 -- Three Fires in 1850 and The Importance of Water -- The Third Fire, June 14, 1850 -- The Fourth Fire, September 17, 1850 -- The Fifth Fire and a Turning Point, May 4, 1851 -- The Sixth fire, June 22, 1851 -- The First Building Code and Fire District, 1852 -- 3. Earthquakes, Weighing the Danger, 1863-1869 -- San Francisco in the Money -- The Earthquake of 1865 -- A Brief Introduction to Seismology -- Measuring Earthquakes -- The Hazards of Filled Ground in 1865 -- The First Seismic Retrofits in San Francisco -- The Earthquake of 1868 -- Postquake Reconstruction and Investigation -- The Joint Committee on Earthquakes -- Why the Report was Never Published -- 4. Innovation: "Earthquake-Proof" Systems, 1868-1880 -- Wood-Frame Construction -- Buildings in Earthquakes -- Bond Iron -- The Success of Foye's Patent -- Emerson's iron bracing -- Touaillon's Base Isolation System -- Timber Frames with Brick Walls -- John Gaynor's Palace Hotel -- San Francisco's New Earthquake-Proof City Hall -- Mullett, the Custom House, and the U.S. Mint -- Foye and Mullett -- South Hall, University of California at Berkeley -- 5. Earthquake-Resistant Construction, 1889-1905 -- Architects and Engineers in the 1890s -- The First Earthquake-Resistant Skyscraper -- The Call Trumps the Chronicle -- A Short, Steel-Frame Building -- Steel Frames Hit the Heights. |
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| Formatted contents note | The Continuing Story of City Hall -- What Engineers Knew -- Wind and Earthquake Forces Erroneously Equated -- Low-Risk Low Buildings? -- The Late-Nineteenth-Century Earthquakes -- Newspapers and Boosterism -- On the Eve of Disaster -- 6. What Really Happened in the Great Earthquake of April 18, 1906 -- Three Eyewitness Reports from the Street -- Four Eyewitness Accounts from Inside -- A Virtual Tour -- Touring the Fire District -- 7. The Fire: April 18-21, 1906 -- Fire Breaks Out -- Fighting the Fires -- Lack of Water -- Coordinated Firefighting -- The Fire District -- Fire-Resistant Redwood -- Buildings Saved -- Desperate Measures -- 8. Assessment of Damage in the 1906 Earthquake: A Centennial Perspective -- A Reconnaissance Report on the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 -- A Review of Building Performance by Construction Type -- Brick Infill Masonry and Load-Bearing Brick Walls -- Masonry Towers and Steeples -- In Favor of Brick -- Brick Mill Construction -- "Earthquake-Proof" Brick Buildings -- Wood-Frame Structures -- Case Study-The 1871 San Francisco City Hall -- Estimates of Earthquake Damage Versus Fire Damage -- 9. The Fire Did It: Recovery, Reconstruction, and Insurance, 1906-1910 -- Provisional Shelter and Federal Government Relief -- Boomtown Recovery -- Plague Threatens Recovery -- Demolition and Disposal -- Two Failed Plans for the New San Francisco -- Remaking the City -- The Fate of the 1871 City Hall -- Insurance Companies Pay the Bill -- The "Six-Bit" Strategy -- why they Paid-Policies, Politics, Fraud, and Good Business -- 10. Fire Codes, 1906-1915 -- Fire District Controversy -- Concrete Enters the Codes -- The Reclassification of Structures -- The Limitation of Building Heights -- Fire-Resistant Construction -- The Evolution of the Building Codes -- 11. New Earthquake Codes -- Cornices -- Parapets -- Lateral Bracing. |
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| Formatted contents note | Discussed But Not in the Codes -- Wood-Frame Buildings -- 12. A Tale of Two Water Systems -- The Spring Valley Water Company -- Volume and Pressure -- The Auxiliary Water System -- Hetch Hetchy -- 13. San Francisco: The Phoenix Rising, 1906-1915 -- Class A Steel-Frame Buildings -- Humboldt Savings Bank Building -- Royal Globe Insurance Company -- Phelan Building -- Sharon Building -- Sather Tower (the Campanile) -- 1912 City Hall -- More Earthquake-Resistant and Fire-Resistant Design in Steel Buildings, 1906-1915 -- Class B, Reinforced Concrete -- Pacific Building -- Class B, and C Brick Buildings -- Segalas and Plante Building -- 118-124 First Street -- Lincoln Realty Building -- Special Construction -- Wood-Frame Residential Construction -- 14. Reality Replaces Myth, 1925-1933 -- On Shaky Ground-the Panama-Pacific International Exposition -- Lateral Forces and the Myth of Denial -- The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Credits -- Index. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Buildings-Earthquake effects. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Tobriner, Stephen |
| Title | Bracing for Disaster |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | New York : Heyday,c2006 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781597140256 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6261231">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6261231</a> |
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