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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Leonardo wrote for himself, privately, often using his ambidextrous skills to write in mirror image. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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SIA New Member Profile: IXP Corporation

Security Industry Association

We use our broad experience in public safety and security technologies to assess legacy environments and create functional and technical architectures. It helps detect unauthorized access, suspicious activities or safety hazards, allowing for swift intervention.

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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. Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago.