The movie "San Francisco" is considered the first real Disaster Movie out of Hollywood. The film premiered in 1936, exactly 30 years after the San Francisco earthquake, one of the most severe and best known natural disasters of the 20. Century. Surprisingly, for 90...
Divine punishment is an ever recuring theme in urban disasters. However, sometimes the situation does not quite fit the morals. In 1906 an earth quake hit the San Franscisco region. Fires broke out in the city, 3.000 citizens lost their lifes and 80% of the city's...
There are many projects for the visualisation of the effects of rising sea levels. The US-American company Climate Central presents dozens of photo-realistic images of potentially flooded areas. Like the flooded Super Bowl Stadium in Florida: They even offer animated...
In the US-American 2014 movie Godzilla, the cityscape - in this case the coastal city San Francisco - experiences an interesting reversal of the culture-nature-dichotomy. The city here is not the place of culture and humanity, but the battle site of a fight between...