Download or read book The Everyday Resilience of the City written by J. Coaffee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the practice of urban resilience past and present, drawing on deeper global historical sources and detailed case-studies of contemporary Britain. It argues that resilience is neither new nor necessarily about protecting ordinary people, but part of a long struggle over the control of cities.