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• A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and cities
• Argues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of geopolitical conflict
• Written by the world's leading analysts of the intersections of urban space and military and terrorist violence
• Draws on cutting-edge research from geography, history, architecture, planning,...

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...

For more than half a century, E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) was arguably the most widely known and universally admired Christian missionary and evangelist of the twentieth century. He went to India as a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1907 and later became an itinerant evangelist. Equally concerned for social justice and spirituality, Jones supported Indian aspirations for independence, and was sensitive to Indian religious traditions. He founded two Christian...

• A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and cities
• Argues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of geopolitical conflict
• Written by the world's leading analysts of the intersections of urban space and military and terrorist violence
• Draws on cutting-edge research from geography, history, architecture, planning,...

Providing the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies, this informative book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history, theory, economic processes, mobilities, physical forms, social and cultural worlds, digital divides, public domains, strategies, politics and futures.

The book includes coverage of post modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, e-commerce, teleworking, community informatics, digital architecture, urban...