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Giacomo Parrinello is a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University and the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna. He has published in the fields of environmental history, history of urban planning, and modern Italian history.

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Explores plans for urban development in Sicily prior to 2 earthquakes, in 1908 and 1968, and compares them with the urbanism which materialised from the ruins. Provides an insight into the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Sites of disaster map

Introduction: Can Earthquakes Speak?

• The Voice of the Earthquake
• A Tale of Two Earthquakes
• The Structure of This Book
  Part I: The 1908 Messina Earthquake

Chapter 1. The 1908 Messina Earthquake

• Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fire

• Earthquake Science

• Earthquake-Proof Urbanism
  Chapter 2. Urban Reform 1880-1908

• Sanitizing the City

• A New Geography of Urban Water

• Engineering the City's Environment

• To Live Happily and Forget the Quake
  Chapter 3. The Modern City 1909-1943

• The Provisional City (and Its Permanent Consequences)

• The Master Plan

• The City Developers versus the Hut Dwellers

• The New City and Its Darker Sides
  Part II: The 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake

Chapter 4. The 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake

• "Like an Atomic Wasteland"

• The Disaster of Poverty

• Road Maps to Development
  Chapter 5. Rural Modernity 1933-1967

• Reclamation and Redemption

• Development Plans

• Grassroots Counter-Measures

• The Many Virtues of Water
  Chapter 6. Urbanized Countryside 1968-1993

• Tents, Barracks, and Committees

• The City Territory

• New Towns and Ghost Factories

• Rural Urbanism
  Conclusion: Fault Lines

• Tales of Earthquake Urbanism

• Fault Lines in a Seismic Country

• Hazards, Urbanization, and Nature
  Bibliography