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UNINA9910778493003321 |
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Titolo |
Disrupted cities [[electronic resource] ] : when infrastructure fails / / edited by Stephen Graham |
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New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-85199-9 |
1-282-31537-4 |
9786612315374 |
0-203-89448-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emergency management |
Disasters - Social aspects |
Infrastructure (Economics) |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009."--Verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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