From the 21st century to the present (2021), a worldwide awareness that cities' development
must be based on projects for socio-economic growth and environmental protection is …

This review paper examines various aspects of seismic resilience, focusing on the behavior
and design criteria for buildings and lifeline systems in earthquake-prone areas. Beginning …

ABSTRACT A framework to quantitatively evaluate seismic resilience of hospital systems is
proposed. A typical hospital system is categorized and importance factors for different …

Post-disaster recovery is a significant challenge, especially in developing countries. Various
technical, environmental, socioeconomic, political, and cultural factors substantially …

Resilience of a community after an extreme event depends on the resilience of different
infrastructure including buildings. There is no well-established approach to characterize and …

A framework of agent-based models for housing recovery is presented and used to
investigate post-earthquake recovery in the City of Vancouver, Canada. Housing recovery is …

The goal of this paper is to facilitate a community of practice for disaster recovery modeling.
This community should include hazard and disaster researchers without modeling …

The functionality of community buildings not only depends on the damage to individual
buildings but also on the interactions with other infrastructure systems. This paper …

Self-centering systems were proposed to reduce residual drift and increase resiliency of
buildings under earthquake loads. However, limited studies have tried to apply self …

A framework is proposed to assess the impact of safety cordons on the recovery of
community functions after an earthquake, using high-resolution geospatial information to …