The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

by David Murakami Wood, Jon Coaffee, Peter Rogers

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230546730
• ISBN13: 9780230546738
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"