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Urban Catastrophes Case Studies

Mexico City Earthquakes photo

Earthquakes

  • Lisbon, 1755
  • Valparaiso, 1906
  • Tokyo, 1923
  • San Juan – Argentina, 1944
  • Mexico City, 1986
Hurricane Katrina photo

Hurricanes

  • New Orleans, 2005
Aftermath of the Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 photo

Fires

  • Tokyo, 1657
  • Chicago, 1871
  • San Francisco, 1906
  • Salonika, 1917
Halifax Explosion

Industrial Accidents

  • Halifax, 1917
Melbourne Flood 1891 photo

Floods

  • Sheffield, 1864
  • Melbourne, 1891
abandoned factory in hanover photo

Deindustrialization & Economic Decline

  • Camden, New Jersey
World War 2 Caen France photo

Post-Conflict Reconstructions

  • First World War (Reims and Lviv)
  • Spanish Civil War (Barcelona)
  • Second World War (Coventry, Leningrad)
  • Lebanese Civil War (Beirut)
  • The collapse of Yugoslavia (Sarajevo).