How have cities prepared for and responded to disasters?

Module question

A short description of the topic and a list of four sources. We discussed these subjects in class. Pick a topic from here for a research paper that will be done later.

Module 2 (8/30 and 9/1): Tenements at the turn of the century [ Hernández's introduction]

Module 3 (9/8): Reading Day [ Hernández's chapters 1 and 2 ]

Module 4 (9/13 and 9/15): Company Towns and Urban Planners [ Hernández's chapter 3]

Module 5 (9/20 and 9/22): Segregation and Immigration in US Cities [ Hernández's chapter 4]

Module 6 (9/27 and 9/29): Post-War Urban Growth [Hernández's chapter 5 and 6]

Module 7: (10/4 and 10/6): City of Inmates, reading discussion [Finish Hernández]

Question 2: how have cities prepared for and responded to disasters?

Module 8 (10/11 and 10/13): San Francisco and the 1906 Earthquake

Module 9 (10/18 and 10/20): Diseases and Epidemics

Module 10 (10/25 and 10/27): Disasters and Environmental Racism

Module 11 (11/1 and 11/3): A Global Perspective

Module 12 (11/8 and 11/10): Mapping environmental conflicts and pollution