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- Title
- Urban Scale Vulnerability, Proceedings of the U.S.-Italy Colloquium on Urban Design and Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, Rome, Italy, October 12-16, 1981.
- File
- PB83145524.pdf
- Author(s)
- Wolfe, M. R.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., June 1982, 160 p.
- Abstract
- The international colloquium was held to define the parameters of 'urban scale vulnerability' in earthquakes. The shortcomings of current approaches to earthquake hazard mitigation were noted. Building codes were found to represent the great majority of earthquake mitigation techniques. Emergency relief programs were found to usually be concerned only with immediate problems and not with long-range recovery planning. An assessment of earthquake hazard should address: (1) the physical vulnerability of regional and urban systems; (2) the social vulnerability of the population and governmental systems; and (3) the economic vulnerability of the urban system. The relationship of land use planning and regulation to hazard mitigation was examined and the physical vulnerability of the urban pattern at both regional and community scales was defined. In addition, the need to identify vulnerable buildings was emphasized. Colloquium participants are listed.
- Keywords
- Regional planning; Earthquake resistant structures; Urban planning; Land use; Foreign technology; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Hazards; Meetings; Urban areas; Building codes; Earthquakes