Name: The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster (en Inglés)
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Author: Stephen Doheny-Farina
ISBN: 9780300089776

portada The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

Stephen Doheny-Farina

Año

2001

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0300089775

ISBN13

9780300089776

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia de américa
Historia local

The Grid and the Village: Losing Electricity, Finding Community, Surviving Disaster (en Inglés)

Stephen Doheny-Farina (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Dura

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In January 1998 a massive ice storm descended on New York, New England, and eastern Canada. It crushed power grids from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic, forcing thousands of people into public shelters and leaving millions of others in their homes without electricity. In this riveting book Stephen Doheny-Farina presents an insider’s account of these events, describing the destruction of the electric network in his own village and the emergence of the face-to-face interactions that took its place. His stories examine the impact of electronic communications on community, illuminating the relationship between electronic and human connections and between networks and neighborhoods, and exploring why and how media portrayals of disasters can distort authentic experience. Doheny-Farina begins by discussing the disaster and tracing the origins of the storm. He then goes back two hundred years to tell how this particular electric grid was built, showing us the sacrifices people made to create the grids that (usually) connect us to one another. Today’s power grid, says Doheny-Farina, has become more vulnerable than we realize, as demand begins to outstrip capacity in urban centers around the nation. His book reminds us what those grids mean―both positively and negatively―to our electronically saturated lives.