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Disrupted cities : when infrastructure fails

Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2010.
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"Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003. But the book also excavates the politics of more hidden disruptions: the clogging of city  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Graham
ISBN: 9780415991780 0415991781 9780415991797 041599179X 9780203894484 0203894480
OCLC Number: 212837494
Description: xii, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: When infrastructures fail / Stephen Graham --
Managing the risk of cascading failure in complex urban infrastructures / Richard G. Little --
Disoriented city : infrastructure, social order, and the policy response to Hurricane Katrina / Benjamin Sims --
Power loss or blackout : the electricity network collapse of August 2003 in North America / Timothy W. Luke --
Containing insecurity : logistic space, U.S. port cities, and the "war on terror" / Deborah Cowen --
Clogged cities : sclerotic infrastructure / Simon Marvin and Will Medd--
Securitizing networked flows : infectious diseases and airports / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil --
Disruption by design : urban infrastructure and political violence / Stephen Graham --
Infrastructure, interruption, and inequality : urban life in the global south / Colin McFarlane.
Responsibility: edited by Stephen Graham.
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