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The everyday resilience of the city : how cities respond to terrorism and disaster / Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood and Peter Rogers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer fileSeries: New security challenges seriesPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: p. cmISBN:
  • 9780230546738 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/216 22
LOC classification:
  • HT166 .C528 2009
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Contents:
Introduction. Resilience past to present -- The vulnerable city in history -- Resilience and social control in the city -- The threat of total devastation -- Controlling the risky city -- The intensification of control : towards urban resilience -- States of protection and emergency : the rise of resilience -- The UK national response -- The UK regional response -- Resilience and city-regional planning -- Urban resilience and everyday life -- Security is coming home.
Review: "This book will make fascinating reading for all those concerned with the future of nations in which arguments for liberty appear to be losing out to the demands of security and surveillance, of cities in a world becoming more urban and more multicultural and of communities in which we are all expected to be watching each other for signs of 'terrorism'."--BOOK JACKET.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 307.1216 EVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900100520

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Resilience past to present -- The vulnerable city in history -- Resilience and social control in the city -- The threat of total devastation -- Controlling the risky city -- The intensification of control : towards urban resilience -- States of protection and emergency : the rise of resilience -- The UK national response -- The UK regional response -- Resilience and city-regional planning -- Urban resilience and everyday life -- Security is coming home.

"This book will make fascinating reading for all those concerned with the future of nations in which arguments for liberty appear to be losing out to the demands of security and surveillance, of cities in a world becoming more urban and more multicultural and of communities in which we are all expected to be watching each other for signs of 'terrorism'."--BOOK JACKET.

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