Disrupted Cities

<p>Bringing together leading researchers from geography political science sociology public policy and technology studies <em>Disrupted Cities</em> 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 militaries; and the ways in which alleged threats of infrastructural disruption have been used to radically reorganize cities as part of the ‘war on terror’.</p><p>Accessible topical and state-of-the art <em>Disrupted Cities</em> will be required reading for anyone interested in the intersections of technology security and urban life as we plunge headlong into this quintessentially urban century. The book’s blend of cutting-edge theory with visceral events means that it will be particularly useful for illuminating urban courses within geography sociology planning anthropology political science public policy architecture and technology studies. </p>