Main entry:

Rogers, Peter.

Title & Author:

Resilience & the city : change, (dis)order and disaster / by Peter Rogers.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012.

Description:

211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Design and the built environment series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Theory, genealogy & history -- The struggle for theory : interplay, poiesis and change -- The struggle for history : applying theory to change -- The struggle for the city : disaster, war, and disorder over time -- History of the present -- The struggle for the city : democracy, regeneration & urban order -- The struggle for security : ordering the resilient city -- The struggle for resilience : returning to interplay -- Conclusions -- Index.

Summary:

Following the turbulent events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of new security and disaster measures have led to significant changes to urban design and the management of urban space. This book blends the genealogical method of Foucault with the theory of rhythms by Lefebvre to examine these changes. The spatial history of urban disaster is linked to the rhythms of everyday urban experience to offer a revised understanding of the regulation of order and disorder in the city. In doing so, the book highlights issues of hardening space, the drift from civil defence to civil protection to civil contingencies and resilience; this assessment realigns the potential impact of tightening security practices and resilient ways of thinking, doing and acting on societal security. This also links to growing concerns about quality of life over the use and potential abuse of security and disaster legislation for managing social unrest. Examples studied include the increased exclusion of minorities from democracy and public life; security oriented interventions in the ethnic minority communities, the use of automated technologies in policing civil and minor offences and the interplay of diverse social groups in more commercially aligned and increasingly securitised public spaces of the entrepreneurial city.

ISBN:

9780754676584 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0754676587 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780754676591 (ebook)
0754676595 (ebook)
(ePub)
9781409484738

Subject:

Cities and towns Social aspects.
Cities and towns Growth.
Villes Aspect social.
Villes Croissance.
urban sprawl.
suburban growth.

Added entries:

Design and the built environment series.

Resilience and the city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286688
Call No.: BIB 227114
Status: Available