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xxvii Los Angeles Times, “Liability for quake losses a big concern for L.A. property owners.”
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-earthquake-liability-20140505-story.html
xxviii “Who is liable in fatal Berkeley balcony collapse?” San Francisco Examiner, June 2015.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/dolan-who-is-liable-in-fatal-berkeley-balcony-collapse/
xxix Ibid.
xxx “Few Californians have earthquake insurance, but interest has jumped since the Mexico earthquakes,” Los
Angeles Times, October 2017. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-agenda-earthquake-insurance-20171002-
story.html
xxxi Structural Engineers Association of Southern California, 2016 Safer Cities Survey.
xxxii Manhattan Institute, “The Politics of Earthquakes,” July 2011. https://www.manhattan-
institute.org/html/politics-earthquakes-3165.html
xxxiii Association of Bay Area Governments, “Soft-Story Residential Buildings in Earthquakes – Risk Management and
Public Policy Opportunities.” http://resilience.abag.ca.gov/wp-content/documents/PR-Soft-Story.pdf
xxxiv FEMA, “A Benefit Cost Model for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings.” https://www.fema.gov/media-
library-data/1403228695368-210f1be4cbc6a07876a737a02c69a543/FEMA_227_-_A_Benefit-
Cost_Model_for_the_Seismic_Rehabilitation_of_Buildings_Volume_1.pdf
xxxv Porter, Keith; et al, “Simple Estimation of Economic Seismic Risk for Buildings.”
http://jimbeck.caltech.edu/papers_pdf/simplified_estimation_of_economic.pdf
xxxvi National Institute of Building Sciences, “Mitigation Saves.”
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nibs.org/resource/resmgr/MMC/hms_vol2_ch1-
7.pdf?hhSearchTerms=%22Mitigation+and+saves%22
xxxvii CBS Channel 10, “Medford city councilor looking to revitalize downtown through seismic retrofitting.”
http://ktvl.com/news/local/medford-city-councilor-looking-to-revitalize-downtown-through-seismic-retrofitting
xxxviii California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, “Methodologies for Financing the Revitalization of an
Historic Central Business District – Solving the Unreinforced Masonry Building Problem.”
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=crpsp
xxxix Ibid.
xl FEMA, “Seismic Retrofit Incentive Programs: A Handbook for Local Governments.” https://www.fema.gov/media-
library-data/20130726-1452-20490-2219/fema_254.pdf
xli City of Fullerton, “Focus on Fullerton,” May, 1998.
http://cityoffullerton.com/gov/departments/city_manager/focus_on_fullerton/1998/may.asp
xlii Southern California Association of Governments, “Compass Blueprint Case Study: Downtown Fullerton”
http://www.reconnectingamerica.org/assets/Uploads/htai_fullerton.pdf
xliii Innovative Room Design. http://innovativeroomdesign.com/an-enriching-journey-through-downtown-santa-
monicas-historic-architecture/
xliv U.S. Green Building Council, “Announcing the new Building Resilience-LA: A Primer for Facilities.”
http://www.resilience.la/#intro
xlv City of Santa Monica website: https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Programs/Seismic-Retrofit/
xlvi David Khorram, City of Long Beach Superintendent of Building and Safety.
xlvii Los Angeles Times, “More than 2,100 Buildings Are Already Being Retrofitted Under L.A.’s Earthquake Safety
Law. June 10, 2017. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-retrofit-garcetti-20170609-
htmlstory.html
xlviii White House, National Security Strategy of the United States of America, December 2017.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf
xlix Ibid.
l Ibid.
li National Academies Press, “What is National Earthquake Resilience?”
https://www.nap.edu/read/13092/chapter/4
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