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Titolo: | Disrupted cities [[electronic resource] ] : when infrastructure fails / / edited by Stephen Graham |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 363.34 |
Soggetto topico: | Emergency management |
Disasters - Social aspects | |
Infrastructure (Economics) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | GrahamStephen |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Disrupted cities |
ISBN: | 1-135-85199-9 |
1-282-31537-4 | |
9786612315374 | |
0-203-89448-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455300703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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