Some Buildings Just Can't Dance (Contemporary Studies in Applied Behavioral Science)

R.A. Olson, V.T. Gaw R.S. Olson

ISBN 10: 0762305282 / ISBN 13: 9780762305285

Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 1999

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188 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # x-0762305282

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Some Buildings Just Can't Dance (Contemporary Studies in Applied Behavioral Science)
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762305282
• ISBN 13: 9780762305285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.4 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book places Oakland's public policy response (nine major ordinances) to building damage suffered in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in a full historical and intergovernmental context. Using a combined non-decision making and advocacy coalition approach, the book demonstrates how and why hazardous-structure abatement was kept off the local political agenda prior to the Loma Prieta disaster. The book then demonstrates how and why city government in Oakland became proactive on the problem of earthquake-damaged and, more importantly, earthquake-vulnerable buildings in general after the disaster.