The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster (New Security Challenges)

This book focuses on the historical and contemporary responses of urban authorities to disaster and terrorism and what this means for citizens and society. Contents......Page 6 List of Boxes, Figures, Plates and Tables......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 1 Introduction......Page 14 Resilience: past to present......Page 16 Resilience and the government of cities......Page 17 The structure of the book......Page 19 2 The Vulnerable City in History......Page 22 The vulnerability of cities before modernity......Page 24 Responding to disaster......Page 30 3 Resilience and Social Control in the City......Page 41 Natural hazards and social order......Page 42 Architecture and internal order in the pre-modern city......Page 44 New moral orders......Page 51 Towards the Twentieth Century......Page 58 4 The Threat of Total Devastation......Page 59 Natural disasters of the early Twentieth Century and their consequences......Page 60 Industrial war and the city......Page 62 The resilience of the city to industrial war......Page 68 The paranoid reflex......Page 78 5 Controlling the Risky City......Page 80 Territorial security......Page 81 Militarizing defensible space......Page 86 The urban panopticon: the rise of video surveillance......Page 93 Security for sale......Page 94 6 The Intensification of Control: Towards Urban Resilience......Page 100 Territory and changing reactions to risk......Page 101 Intensifying urban control......Page 102 Changing terrorist targeting and tactics......Page 109 Protecting and preparing UK plc......Page 112 Towards a resilient planning of cities......Page 121 7 States of Protection and Emergency: The Rise of Resilience......Page 123 Unpacking meaning, model and metaphor through 'resilience'......Page 125 Rethinking emergency planning policy – towards resilience policy......Page 135 Securing the rhetoric of resilience......Page 144 8 The UK National Response......Page 146 Developing resilience to emergencies......Page 152 The Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) of 2004......Page 156 The national counter-terrorism strategy......Page 159 Towards UK resilience......Page 170 9 The UK Regional Response......Page 176 New regionalism and resilience......Page 177 The structure of the regional resilience tier......Page 183 How does the regional scale work?......Page 186 A pragmatic response to resilient governance in the regions......Page 198 10 Local Resilience Planning......Page 203 Local resilience forum structures and workstream priorities......Page 204 Practical local emergency planning......Page 208 The focus of different Core-City responses......Page 212 Different challenges, different threats......Page 217 Securing the resilient event......Page 219 Towards local resilience......Page 229 11 Urban Resilience and Everyday Life......Page 231 Militarism, modernism, managerialism......Page 232 Stage-set security and the event......Page 238 We are all spies now......Page 243 12 Security is Coming Home......Page 254 The future of resilience policy......Page 255 The impact of resilience politics......Page 264 The future of resilience......Page 271 Conclusion: blending resilience with sustainable urbanism......Page 275 Notes......Page 277 Bibliography......Page 284 A......Page 318 B......Page 319 C......Page 320 D......Page 323 E......Page 324 G......Page 325 H......Page 326 I......Page 327 K......Page 328 L......Page 329 M......Page 330 N......Page 332 P......Page 333 R......Page 334 S......Page 337 T......Page 339 U......Page 340 W......Page 342 Z......Page 343 Introduction. Resilience past to present The vulnerable city in history Resilience and social control in the city The threat of total devastation Controlling the risky city The intensification of control : towards urban resilience States of protection and emergency : the rise of resilience The UK national response The UK regional response Resilience and city-regional planning Urban resilience and everyday life Security is coming home. "This book will make fascinating reading for all those concerned with the future of nations in which arguments for liberty appear to be losing out to the demands of security and surveillance, of cities in a world becoming more urban and more multicultural and of communities in which we are all expected to be watching each other for signs of 'terrorism'."--BOOK JACKET 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.