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Contents

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

Fault Lines

Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy

Giacomo Parrinello

274 pages, 23 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78238-950-7 Hb Published (May 2015)

eISBN 978-1-78238-951-4 eBook