Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails / Edition 1

Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails / Edition 1

by Stephen Graham
Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails / Edition 1
ISBN-10:
0415991781
ISBN-13:
9780415991780
Pub. Date:
09/25/2009
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails / Edition 1

Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails / Edition 1

by Stephen Graham

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Overview

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 sewers with fat; the day-to-day infrastructural collapses which dominate urban life in much of the global south; the deliberate devastation of urban infrastructure by state militaries; and the ways in which alleged threats of infrastructural disruption have been used to radically reorganize cities as part of the ‘war on terror’.

Accessible, topical and state-of-the art, Disrupted Cities will be required reading for anyone interested in the intersections of technology, security and urban life as we plunge headlong into this quintessentially urban century. The book’s blend of cutting-edge theory with visceral events means that it will be particularly useful for illuminating urban courses within geography, sociology, planning, anthropology, political science, public policy, architecture and technology studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415991780
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/25/2009
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Stephen Graham is Professor of Human Geography at Durham University in the UK. He has a background in urbanism, planning and the sociology of technology. His research addresses the complex intersections between urban places, mobilities, technology, war, surveillance and geopolitics. He is Academic Director of the International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Cities and Regions (CSCR), both at Durham. His books include Telecommunications and the City, Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), the Cybercities Reader, and Cities, War and Terrorism. His latest book, Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, will be published by Verso in Summer 2009.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Managing the Risk of Cascading Failure in Complex Urban Infrastructure 2. Disoriented City 3. Power Loss 4. Containing Insecurity 5. Clogged Cities 6. Securitizing Networked Flows 7. Disruption by Design 8. Infrastructure, Interruption and Inequality

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