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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778493003321

Titolo

Disrupted cities [[electronic resource] ] : when infrastructure fails / / edited by Stephen Graham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-85199-9

1-282-31537-4

9786612315374

0-203-89448-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamStephen

Disciplina

363.34

Soggetti

Emergency management

Disasters - Social aspects

Infrastructure (Economics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009."--Verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. When Infrastructures Fail / Stephen Graham -- 2. Managing the Risk of Cascading Failure in Complex Urban Infrastructures / Richard G. Little -- 3. Disoriented City: Infrastructure, Social Order, and the Police Response to Hurricane Katrina / Benjamin Sims -- 4. Power Loss or Blackout: The Electricity Network Collapse of August 2003 in North America / Timothy W. Luke -- 5.  Containing Insecurity: Logistic Space, U.S. Port Cities, and the "War on Terror" / Deborah Cowen -- 6. Clogged Cities: Sclerotic Infrastructure / Simon Marvin and Will Medd -- 7. Securitizing Networked Flows: Infectious Diseases and Airports / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil -- 8. Disruption By Design: Urban Infrastructure and Political Violence / Stephen Graham -- 9. Infrastructure, Interruption, and Inequality: Urban Life in the Global South / Colin McFarlane.