Two defining processes shape our age: the urbanization of our planet and the uneven connections of globalization. Both are underpinned by radical transformations of networked infrastructures: telecommunications, transport, energy, water, and even urban streets. Splintering Urbanism offers an analysis of the contemporary urban condition through the lens of such infrastructure networks. It develops an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks, new technologies, and contemporary urban spaces. The text offers a perspective on:...
Two defining processes shape our age: the urbanization of our planet and the uneven connections of globalization. Both are underpinned by radical tran...
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...
Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities...
Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period.
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,...
Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect...
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a conflict zone inhabited by lurking shadow enemies. Urban inhabitants have become targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned...
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, C...
Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies. An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers examine critical questions about urban infrastructure in different global contexts.
The chapters address water, sanitation, and waste...
Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range o...
Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies. An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers examine critical questions about urban infrastructure in different global contexts.
The chapters address water, sanitation, and waste...
Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range o...
