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Risky Cities

by Fu, Albert S

in capitalism / catastrophe / cities / Cities and towns / city management / city planning / City Planning & Urban Development / city-building / commodification / corporations / critical study / disaster capitalism / disaster management / disaster recovery / disaster relief / disaster risk / disaster risk reduction / disaster survival / disasters / dumpster / environment / Environmental / environmental activism / environmental activist / environmental assessments / environmental conservation / environmental crises / Environmental disasters / environmental hazards / Environmental Policy / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental Studies / erosion / financiers / fire / garbage / garbage disposal / global development / global urban development / insurance / land slides / limestone / mitigation / nature / oil disaster / policymakers / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy / Pollution Control / profiteering / Public Policy / recycling / Regenerative Urbanism / risk assessment / Risk management / risk redistribution / sanitation / SCIENCE / SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) / sewage / sink-hole / sinkholes / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban / Social sciences / Sociology / swallow hole / technocratic mitigation / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Pollution Control / trash / Urban / urban disaster readiness / urban disaster risk reduction / Urban economics / urban environment / urban expansion / urban nature / urban planning / urban policies / Urban Revitalization / Urban Studies / urban survival / urban survival skills / urbanism / Urbanization / waste disposal / waste management / wild fires

2022

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Risky Cities

Fu, Albert S

2022

Overview

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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Rutgers University Press

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/ City Planning & Urban Development