Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Disrupted Cities : When Infrastructure Fails - Stephen Graham

Disrupted Cities

When Infrastructure Fails

By: Stephen Graham (Editor)

eText | 10 June 2010 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText


$95.70

or 4 interest-free payments of $23.93 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

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.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 25th September 2009

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

More in Geography

Tom Appleby, Convict Boy - Jackie French

eBOOK

Living on the Edge - Yvonne Claypole

eBOOK

A Life of Extremes - Jeff McMullen

eBOOK

High and Dry - Guy Pearse

eBOOK

$15.99

Welcome to the Outback - Sue Williams

eBOOK

Letters from Everest - George Lowe

eBOOK

Captain James Cook - Rob Mundle

eBOOK