The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster

by J. Coaffee, D. Murakami Wood, P. Rogers, David Murakami Murakami Wood

Overview

In a time classed breathlessly as the 'age of terror', when emergency has become normal, states are trying to find ways to make their cities less vulnerable and build in 'resilience'. This book examines the practice of urban resilience, past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neither new nor necessarily about protecting ordinary people, but part of a long struggle over the control of cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349361151
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	New Security Challenges Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

JON COAFFEE is a Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Urban Regeneration in the Centre for Urban Policy Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on issues related to the social and economic future of cities and especially the impact of terrorism on the functioning and management of urban areas.

DAVID MURAKAMI WOOD is a Lecturer at the Global Urban Research Unit, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK. He works mainly on surveillance and the city, and is a founder and Managing Editor of the journal, Surveillance & Society, and a founder and trustee of the Surveillance Studies Network.

PETER ROGERS is a Lecturer in the Sociology of Law at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He founded the British Sociological Association Urban Theory and Research Study Group and has sat on the BSA Council. He has published primarily in the themes of urban security, civil contingencies and terrorism; and minority participation; citizenship and democracy.

STUART CROFT is Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Figures, Plates and Tables viii

Acknowledgments x

Notes on Contributors xi

1 Introduction 1

Resilience: past to present 3

Resilience and the government of cities 4

The structure of the book 6

2 The Vulnerable City in History 9

The vulnerability of cities before modernity 11

Responding to disaster 17

3 Resilience and Social Control in the City 28

Natural hazards and social order 29

Architecture and internal order in the pre-modern city 31

New moral orders 38

Towards the Twentieth Century 45

4 The Threat of Total Devastation 46

Natural disasters of the early Twentieth Century and their consequences 47

Industrial war and the city 49

The resilience of the city to industrial war 55

The paranoid reflex 65

5 Controlling the Risky City 67

Territorial security 68

Militarizing defensible space 73

The urban panopticon: the rise of video surveillance 80

Security for sale 81

6 The Intensification of Control: Towards Urban Resilience 87

Territory and changing reactions to risk 88

Intensifying urban control 89

Changing terrorist targeting and tactics 96

Protecting and preparing UK plc 99

Towards a resilient planning of cities 108

7 States of Protection and Emergency: The Rise of Resilience 110

Unpacking meaning, model and metaphor through 'resilience' 112

Rethinking emergency planning policy - towards resilience policy 122

Securing the rhetoric of resilience 131

8 The UK National Response 133

Developing resilience to emergencies 139

The Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) of 2004 143

The national counter-terrorism strategy 146

Towards UK resilience 157

9 The UK Regional Response 163

New regionalismand resilience 164

The structure of the regional resilience tier 170

How does the regional scale work? 173

A pragmatic response to resilient governance in the regions 185

10 Local Resilience Planning 190

Local resilience forum structures and workstream priorities 191

Practical local emergency planning 195

The focus of different Core-City responses 199

Different challenges, different threats 204

Securing the resilient event 206

Towards local resilience 216

11 Urban Resilience and Everyday Life 218

Militarism, modernism, managerialism 219

Stage-set security and the event 225

We are all spies now 230

12 Security is Coming Home 241

The future of resilience policy 242

The impact of resilience politics 251

The future of resilience 258

Conclusion: blending resilience with sustainable urbanism 262

Notes 264

Bibliography 271

Index 305