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Scott Gabriel Knowles | May 20th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Everyone knows that deindustrialization in American cities started with the end of WWII and the decentralization of American manufacturing that followed it, right? A recent article in the Journal of Urban History by University of Pennsylvania professor Domenic Vitiello takes this chronology to task. (
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Scott Gabriel Knowles | Nov 22nd, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: |
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Scott Gabriel Knowles | Nov 8th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Houston, San Diego |
A firefighter in San Diego pulls out his blackberry and sees that the wind direction has changed and the ridgeline above him as about to burst into flames. A police helicopter crew in Houston observes flash flooding at an intersection and all traffic lights leading to the area change to red. The Mayor of Philadelphia clicks his way down a street from his computer screen in City Hall, counting abandoned houses. Hardly the stuff of science fiction, hazards mapping is rapidly moving the knowledge frontier for first responders, hazards researchers, and urban officials.
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Matt Stroud | Oct 26th, 2007 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: San Diego |
Why has knowledge of urban hazards like wildfire been increasing, while the number of disasters, and the losses associated also continue to climb? (
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Everyone knows that deindustrialization in American cities started with the end of WWII and the decentralization of American manufacturing that followed it, right? A recent article in the Journal of Urban History by University of Pennsylvania professor Domenic Vitiello takes this chronology to task. (keep reading…)
