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Science 28 July 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5786, p. 444
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130008
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ENGINEERING:
Shaking and Shaping San Francisco

Christine Theodoropoulos

Bracing for Disaster
Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933
by Stephen Tobriner
Heyday and Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2006. 351 pp. Paper, $30. ISBN 1-59714-025-2.
Reviewing the responses of builders and engineers to San Francisco's earthquakes of 1868 and 1906, the author argues that, contrary to many accounts, the dangers posed by earthquakes were faced and earthquake-resistant features were adopted well before they were legally mandated.
The reviewer is at the Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1206, USA. E-mail: ctheodor{at}uoregon.edu

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