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The Everyday Resilience of the City

How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: New Security Challenges (NSECH)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 1-8
  3. The Vulnerable City in History

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 9-27
  4. Resilience and Social Control in the City

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 28-45
  5. The Threat of Total Devastation

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 46-66
  6. Controlling the Risky City

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 67-86
  7. The Intensification of Control: Towards Urban Resilience

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 87-109
  8. States of Protection and Emergency: The Rise of Resilience

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 110-132
  9. The UK National Response

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 133-162
  10. The UK Regional Response

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 163-189
  11. Local Resilience Planning

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 190-217
  12. Urban Resilience and Everyday Life

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 218-240
  13. Security is Coming Home

    • Jon Coaffee, David Murakami Wood, Peter Rogers
    Pages 241-263
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 264-330

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Jon Coaffee

  • School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Newcastle University, UK

    David Murakami Wood

  • Macquarie University, Australia

    Peter Rogers

About the authors

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.

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