Disrupted cities: When infrastructure fails [electronic Resource]
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Edited by Stephen Graham
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New York
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: Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 196 p.
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: ill.,tables, maps
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
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Bibliography:p.171-186
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.