The Everyday Resilience of the City How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster
by Coaffee, Jon; Wood, David Murakami; Rogers, PeterFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-12-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This book focuses on the historical and contemporary responses of urban authorities to disaster and terrorism and what this means for citizens and society.
Author Biography
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 a Lecturer at the Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. He works mainly on surveillance and the city, and is a founder and Managing Editor of the journal, Surveillance & Society, and a founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network.
PETER ROGERS is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He founded the British Sociological Association Urban Theory and Research Study Group and has sat on the BSA Council. He has published primarily in the themes of urban security, civil contingencies and terrorism; and minority participation; citizenship and democracy.
DAVID MURAKAMI WOOD is a Lecturer at the Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. He works mainly on surveillance and the city, and is a founder and Managing Editor of the journal, Surveillance & Society, and a founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network.
PETER ROGERS is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He founded the British Sociological Association Urban Theory and Research Study Group and has sat on the BSA Council. He has published primarily in the themes of urban security, civil contingencies and terrorism; and minority participation; citizenship and democracy.
STUART CROFT is Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham.
Table of Contents
| List of Boxes, Figures, Plates and Tables | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Notes on Contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Resilience: past to present | p. 3 |
| Resilience and the government of cities | p. 4 |
| The structure of the book | p. 6 |
| The Vulnerable City in History | p. 9 |
| The vulnerability of cities before modernity | p. 11 |
| Responding to disaster | p. 17 |
| Resilience and Social Control in the City | p. 28 |
| Natural hazards and social order | p. 29 |
| Architecture and internal order in the pre-modern city | p. 31 |
| New moral orders | p. 38 |
| Towards the Twentieth Century | p. 45 |
| The Threat of Total Devastation | p. 46 |
| Natural disasters of the early Twentieth Century and their consequences | p. 47 |
| Industrial war and the city | p. 49 |
| The resilience of the city to industrial war | p. 55 |
| The paranoid reflex | p. 65 |
| Controlling the Risky City | p. 67 |
| Territorial security | p. 68 |
| Militarizing defensible space | p. 73 |
| The urban panopticon: the rise of video surveillance | p. 80 |
| Security for sale | p. 81 |
| The Intensification of Control: Towards Urban Resilience | p. 87 |
| Territory and changing reactions to risk | p. 88 |
| Intensifying urban control | p. 89 |
| Changing terrorist targeting and tactics | p. 96 |
| Protecting and preparing UK plc | p. 99 |
| Towards a resilient planning of cities | p. 108 |
| States of Protection and Emergency: The Rise of Resilience | p. 110 |
| Unpacking meaning, model and metaphor through 'resilience' | p. 112 |
| Rethinking emergency planning policy - towards resilience policy | p. 122 |
| Securing the rhetoric of resilience | p. 131 |
| The UK National Response | p. 133 |
| Developing resilience to emergencies | p. 139 |
| The Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) of 2004 | p. 143 |
| The national counter-terrorism strategy | p. 146 |
| Towards UK resilience | p. 157 |
| The UK Regional Response | p. 163 |
| New regionalism and resilience | p. 164 |
| The structure of the regional resilience tier | p. 170 |
| How does the regional scale work? | p. 173 |
| A pragmatic response to resilient governance in the regions | p. 185 |
| Local Resilience Planning | p. 190 |
| Local resilience forum structures and workstream priorities | p. 191 |
| Practical local emergency planning | p. 195 |
| The focus of different Core-City responses | p. 199 |
| Different challenges, different threats | p. 204 |
| Securing the resilient event | p. 206 |
| Towards local resilience | p. 216 |
| Urban Resilience and Everyday Life | p. 218 |
| Militarism, modernism, managerialism | p. 219 |
| Stage-set security and the event | p. 225 |
| We are all spies now | p. 230 |
| Security is Coming Home | p. 241 |
| The future of resilience policy | p. 242 |
| The impact of resilience politics | p. 251 |
| The future of resilience | p. 258 |
| Conclusion: blending resilience with sustainable urbanism | p. 262 |
| Notes | p. 264 |
| Bibliography | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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