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9780813950921 Academic Inspection Copy

Design Before Disaster

Japan's Culture of Preparedness
  • ISBN-13: 9780813950921
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
  • By Miho Mazereeuw
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 31/03/2025
  • Format: Paperback (254.00mm X 216.00mm) 448 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of architecture [AMX]Japan [1FPJ]
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Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of the Japanese archipelago. They have endured typhoons, cyclones, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Residents of Japan have responded to their precarious circumstances by developing a unique culture of disaster preparedness, known as bosai, one that has become embedded in everyday life. It has equipped the island nation to plan for future emergencies and to greatly reduce their impact. In this practical, engaging text, Miho Mazereeuw-who has carried out ethnographic fieldwork and space-based analysis for more than two decades-offers a detailed framework to design and prepare for anticipated disasters and describes effective interventions in urban landscape and architecture. An urgent and timely book, Design Before Disaster represents the cutting edge in disaster mitigation and adaptation to empower communities in the world's most vulnerable places.
Miho Mazereeuw is the Director of the Urban Risk Lab and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
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