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

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.