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Coaffee, Jon; Wood, David Murakami; Rogers, Peter - The Everyday Resilience of the City. How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster.  - 9780230546738 - V9780230546738
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The Everyday Resilience of the City. How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster.

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Description for The Everyday Resilience of the City. How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster. Hardback. This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neither new nor necessarily about protecting ordinary people, but part of a long struggle over the control of cities. Series: New Security Challenges. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPWL; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 676.
This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neither new nor necessarily about protecting ordinary people, but part of a long struggle over the control of cities.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
New Security Challenges
Number of Pages
341
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230546738
SKU
V9780230546738
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99-15

About Coaffee, Jon; Wood, David Murakami; Rogers, Peter
JON COAFFEE is a Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Urban Regeneration in the Centre for Urban Policy Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on issues related to the social and economic future of cities and especially the impact of terrorism on the functioning and management of urban areas. DAVID MURAKAMI WOOD is ... Read more

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