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Don't Tear it Down! - Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir

Don't Tear it Down! - Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir

Don't Tear it Down! - Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir

$39.95

Langenbach, Randolph. Don't Tear it Down! - Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir

UNESCO

2009

Book ID: 82677

This well-illustrated and researched study makes the case for the preservation of the traditional domestic architecture that makes up the urban form of Srinagar and other cities in Kashmir. Includes a detailed primer on structural concepts of earthquake safety and a lengthy section on how to maintain, repair, and strengthen the heritage buildings of this region.

139 pp., color illus. Pap.