Author: Sanborn Map CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Introduces the new reduced size map.
Description and Utilization of the Sanborn Map
Author: Sanborn Map CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Introduces the new reduced size map.
Fire Insurance Maps
Author: Diane L. OswaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
"Fire insurance maps are the footprints of America's Industrial Revolution, ... relics that bear witness to the mortality of businesses, industries and cities"--Cover.
Eating Smoke
Author: Mark TebeauPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
Data Action
Author: Sarah WilliamsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044196
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for good--from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations--and for bad--implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. In Data Action, Sarah Williams provides a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways. Too often data has been used--and manipulated--to make policy decisions without much stakeholder input. Williams outlines a method that emphasizes collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public. This approach creates trust and co-ownership in the data by opening the process to those who know the issues best.
Maps, Description and Uses for Civil Defense Planning and Operational Purposes
Author: United States. Office of Civil and Defense MobilizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Culture and Society
Author: Nuala C. JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351160346
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space, culture and society. This volume contains twenty-one essays, published over the past thirty years, that are iconic instances of this investigative field. With a focus on four broad themes - landscape, identity, colonialism, nature - these essays represent some of the best and most innovative interventions that geographers have made on these topics. From the visual to the corporeal, from rural Ceylon to urban America and from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, this volume brings together a set of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded works.
The California Geographer
Author: Extracting Spatial Information from Historical Maps
Author: Benedikt BudigPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3958260926
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Historical maps are fascinating documents and a valuable source of information for scientists of various disciplines. Many of these maps are available as scanned bitmap images, but in order to make them searchable in useful ways, a structured representation of the contained information is desirable. This book deals with the extraction of spatial information from historical maps. This cannot be expected to be solved fully automatically (since it involves difficult semantics), but is also too tedious to be done manually at scale. The methodology used in this book combines the strengths of both computers and humans: it describes efficient algorithms to largely automate information extraction tasks and pairs these algorithms with smart user interactions to handle what is not understood by the algorithm. The effectiveness of this approach is shown for various kinds of spatial documents from the 16th to the early 20th century.
Union List of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Held by Institutions in the United States and Canada: Alabama to Missouri
Author: R. Philip HoehnPublisher: Santa Cruz, Calif. : Western Association of Map Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Indiana Academy of the Social SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description