- 174 pages
- English
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About this book
Over half the world's population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities.
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Yes, you can access Risky Cities by Albert S. Fu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & City Planning & Urban Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Publisher
Rutgers University PressYear
2022Print ISBN
9781978820302, 9781978820319eBook ISBN
9781978820326Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Living with Disaster and Capitalism
- 2. Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities
- 3. The Logistical Nightmare of Trash and Urban Nature
- 4. Fire, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops
- 5. Assessing and Managing Risk
- Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Series List