Istanbul has become one of the most proactive cities in the world in terms of earthquake risk mitigation. Under the Seismic Risk Mitigation Project, more than 700 public buildings have been retrofitted to help them withstand seismic shocks and more than 450,000 people have been offered disaster preparedness training. Officials in Istanbul recently met with their counterparts in New York City and Washington, D.C. at the Sustainable Cities Knowledge...
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Preparing for the Big One: Learning from Disaster in Turkey
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World Bank.
Preparing for the Big One: Learning from Disaster in Turkey (Turkish). Feature Story Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099440503012328549