Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen J. Pyne, Greg Bankoff, Jordan Sand, Uwe Lübken

Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World

Stephen J. Pyne, Greg Bankoff, Jordan Sand, Uwe Lübken

368 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global stu...

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