Disaster Hits Home - New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery - Hardback - 1998

A study of what happens in the weeks and months after disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes strike. Using case studies it focuses on the recovery of damaged housing, demonstrates fundamental factors that have changed in contemporary urban disasters and proposes a housing recovery policy.
Year of publication: 1998
Pagination: 326 pages, 68 black-and-white photos, 10 line figures, 10 maps, 40 tables
Format: Hardback