Bracing for Disaster
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Stephen Tobriner
Stephen Tobriner is a professor of architectural history at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on architecture and the history of reconstruction after earthquakes, and has investigated damage in earthquakes around the world with teams sponsored by the United Nations, the National Science Foundation, the Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
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