Flammable Cities : Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (419 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cities as Fire Regimes -- 1. Jan van der Heyden and the Origins of Modern Firefighting: Art and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam -- 2. Governance, Arson, and Firefighting in Edo, 1600-1868 -- 3. Taming Fire in Valparaíso, Chile, 1840s-1870s -- 4. The Burning of a Modern City? Istanbul as Perceived by the Agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865-1870 -- 5. Imperial Russia's Urban Fire Regimes, 1700-1905 -- 6. Fighting Fires (or Not) in Porfirian Mexico -- Part 2: Fire as Risk and as a Catalyst if Change -- 7. The Great Fire of Lisbon, 1755 -- 8. A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-Seismic Morphology of Nineteenth-Century Manila -- 9. Fire and Urban Morphogenesis: Patterns of Destruction and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century Montreal -- 10. The Great Fire of Hamburg, 1842: From Catastrophe to Reform -- 11. Did the Fire Insurance Industry Help Reduce Urban Firesin the United States in the Nineteenth Century? -- 12. Inflaming the Fears of Theatergoers: How Fires Shaped the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880-1910 -- 13. Points of Origin: The Social Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire -- Part 3: The Politics of Fire -- 14. The Politics of Singapore's Fire Narrative -- 15. The Beirut Central District on Fire: Firefighting in a Divided City with Shifting Front Lines, 1975-1976 -- 16. Who Burned Cleveland, Ohio? The Forgotten Fires of the 1970s -- 17. "There Is More to This Fire Than Meets the Eye": Anatomy of Fire Outbreaks in Lagos, Nigeria, 1980-2008 -- 18. Fires, Urban Environments, and Politics in Contemporary Jakarta -- Afterword: Fire on the Fringe -- Contributors -- Index.