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Terrorism, risk and the global city : towards urban resilience / by Jon Coaffee

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate Pub. cop. 2009Description: xii, 361 sISBN:
  • 9780754690467 (ebook : alk. paper)
  • 9780754674283 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1/21609421
Other classification:
  • 307
  • Odgb
Contents:
Transforming cities in the age of terrorism -- Introduction: terrorism, risk and the global city -- Urban restructuring and the development of defensive landscapes -- Controlling urban security discourse -- Risk society, resilient planning, and the global terrorist threat -- The city of London's response -- Constructing and reinforcing the ring of steel -- Distributing the financial risk of terrorism -- Framing, legitimising and negotiating the city's response to -- Terrorist risk -- Terrorism, risk and the future city: towards urban resilience -- Beating the bombers: a decade of counter terrorism in the city of -- London -- Terrorism and future urbanism in the wake of 9/11 -- London prepared? resilience, reputation, and the global city
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Book (loan) Campus Karlskrona 307 Available 85001945759

Includes bibliographical references and index

Transforming cities in the age of terrorism -- Introduction: terrorism, risk and the global city -- Urban restructuring and the development of defensive landscapes -- Controlling urban security discourse -- Risk society, resilient planning, and the global terrorist threat -- The city of London's response -- Constructing and reinforcing the ring of steel -- Distributing the financial risk of terrorism -- Framing, legitimising and negotiating the city's response to -- Terrorist risk -- Terrorism, risk and the future city: towards urban resilience -- Beating the bombers: a decade of counter terrorism in the city of -- London -- Terrorism and future urbanism in the wake of 9/11 -- London prepared? resilience, reputation, and the global city

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