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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

It is part of the language of architecture through the ages, and its vocabulary is very rich indeed. People came from far and wide to attach the Renaissance equivalent of ‘Post-It’ notes to the pedestal to express what they thought of the work (Forcellino 2009, p. References Forcellino, Antonio 2009. More does not mean better.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. The tragedy lies in their non-observance and the paucity of retrofitting. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). I need not repeat them here.

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Cosmos DB vs. MongoDB

Pure Storage

Initially released in 2009, MongoDB is a popular open source NoSQL database that gained widespread adoption due to its flexibility, dynamic schema, and scalability. Its schema-less architecture enables developers to adapt to changing data requirements without constraints, making it an excellent choice for agile development environments.

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Business Continuity as a Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery Journal

The collapse of the building structurally compromised a nearby law office, an architectural firm had water damage, and surrounding buildings had smoke and broken window damage. The 1870s-era building was empty as an estate antiques store recently moved and the upper floors were under renovation. The damage was not limited to this building.