Bøker av Jon Coaffee

Security, Resilience and Planning offers key concept and practical guidance about the role of planners in countering terrorist risk, using a range of international case studies.

A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events

As the cities of the world increasingly come under threat from crisis and disaster, planners are searching for ways to build resilience into the foundations of modern urban centres.This important book provides a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of urban resilience in response to a range of disruptions, including terrorism, climate change and economic crises. It examines how the concepts and principles of resilience exert increasing significant influence over the form and function of planning. Discussing a 'politics of resilience' in which fundamental questions of social and spatial justice are posed, this book examines how urban planners are increasingly tasked with the responsibility of safeguarding the future of urbanised centres and those that live in them. Drawing on international examples and detailed case-studies, this book provides a nuanced account of the uses, and misuses, of resilience and points a way forward for planning activity, from an approach that is too often narrowly technical in focus towards an integrated and adaptable model for coping with risk, crisis and uncertainty. It will make essential reading for students of urban planning and researchers alike.

Specifically concerned with the two IRA vehicle-bomb attacks on the City of London in 1992 and 1993, this study explores the impact of terrorism and mega-terrorism on security, freedom and the conduct of businesses who have to operate in threatened societies and environments.

Focuses on terrorism and urbanism related to the changing nature of terrorism and the security challenges facing western nations and their cities. This work highlights how London is leading the way in developing best practice in counter-terrorist design and management and how such practice is being internationalised.