Disrupted cities when infrastructure fails /

• Other Authors: Graham, Stephen, 1965-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Subjects: Emergency management.; Disasters > Social aspects.; Infrastructure (Economics); NATURE > Natural Disasters.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: When Infrastructures Fail; CHAPTER 2: Managing the Risk of Cascading Failure in Complex Urban Infrastructures; CHAPTER 3: Disoriented City: Infrastructure, Social Order, and the Police Response to Hurricane Katrina; CHAPTER 4: Power Loss or Blackout: The Electricity Network Collapse of August 2003 in North America; CHAPTER 5: Containing Insecurity: Logistic Space, U.S. Port Cities, and the "War on Terror"; CHAPTER 6: Clogged Cities: Sclerotic Infrastructure.