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Urban Design in Seismic-Prone Regions

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08321-1

ISBN: 978-3-031-08320-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 1, 2022

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Urban Design and Disasters

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 1 –25

[We can define urban designUrban design as the purposeful decisions and actionsActions which aim at establishing functionalFunctional and formal orderOrder in the physicalPhysicalenvironmentEnvironment. It is obvious that this definitionDefinition implies some abstract and value-free...
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Definitions and Concepts

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 27 –47

[This chapter will provide a brief dentition and description of the commonly used terms and conceptsConcept in disasterDisasters, and particularly seismicSeismicriskRiskmanagementManagement. Life losses and materialMaterials damages of disastersDisasters may be attributed to three groups of...
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Manjil Earthquake of June 20, 1990, The Lessons Learned

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 49 –95

[The June 20, 1990, ManjilManjilEarthquakeEarthquake in northwest Iran was the most damaging event to date in the country. That produced the worst earthquakeEarthquakedisasterDisasters in the history of Iran after the TabasTabas-e-GolshanearthquakeEarthquake of September 16, 1978, of similar...
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Urban Design at Macro-Scale: Urban Design in a Seismic-Prone City

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 97 –146

[Here, in this chapter, urban designUrban design recommendations will be made for a region and cityCity which are prone to seismicSeismicriskRisk. Following chapters will deal with urban designUrban design solutions for the city centerCity center, BazaarBazaar area, access networkNetwork and open...
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Urban Design Solutions to Mitigate Seismic Risk at the Small Scale: Bazaar Area, Rasht

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 147 –207

[The existingExisting conditions are a result and a continuation of developmentDevelopmentplanningPlanningprocessesProcess which seldom account directly or indirectly for natural hazardsHazards, a fact that is striking, since many of the objects of developmentDevelopmentplanningPlanning are...
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Creating Open Spaces, Modification, and Improvement of Access Network: The Case of Central Area of the City of Rasht

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 209 –246

[Open spacesOpen space and access neworks, as the most significant elementsElements of urban spaceSpace, play a critical roleRole in every phase of earthquakeEarthquake diasters, from escapeEscape, refugeRefuge, reliefRelief, rescueRescue, first aidFirst aid, emegency, and...
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General Guidelines for Urban Design in Seismic-Prone Regions

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 247 –287

[What can urban designUrban design do to practically reduce the vulnerabilityVulnerability of the built environmentEnvironment? Here, in this chapter some guidelinesGuidelines are visually illustrated to help users easily understand and apply the ideas in practice. These include the following:...
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Conclusion

Bahrainy, Hossein; Bakhtiar, Ameneh

Pages: 289 –300

[The global number of yearly reported natural disasters has quadrupled since the 1960s, reaching more than 400 events and 200,000 affected people per year in the 2010s. Probably the most important factor is the increasing exposure of people to natural hazards, caused by human development patterns...

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