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PurposeAims to unpack the development and subsequent growth in the UK of so‐called new localism concepts and policies post‐1997.Design/methodology/approachHighlights both the political rhetoric and the practical applications of such policies. In this context, introduces the articles in this special issue which focus on various dimensions of new localism‐style policy, predominantly in the UK, but provide a series of arguments and illustrate a number of contradictions that are equally applicable in many Western countries.FindingsTension exists between centralising focus and constructing prescribed policy at national state level, and decentralising power and responsibility to a more inclusive group of stakeholders in order to develop increasingly nuanced and locally specific sets of regeneration priorities and outcomes.Originality/valueThe articles in this special issue illuminate a number of lessons for regeneration practitioners and managers, and for academics engaged in research and evaluation of public sector policy.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Planning's Role in Counter-Terrorism -- Introduction -- Security is coming home -- Research basis and content -- Chapter 2: The Beginnings: Defensible Space and the Manipulation of the Built Environment -- Design, behaviour and security -- Mark II defensive design -- Community safety and sustainable communities -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Military and Planning -- Defensive cities -- The territorial imperative in divided cities -- Defending Belfast from terrorism -- Israeli securityscapes -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 4: Bunkers and Cordons Sanitaires -- Designing-out terrorism in the American city -- 1990s Fortress London: constructing and reinforcing rings of steel -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 5: Enhancing the Resilience of Crowded Places -- Reactive security in the immediate wake of 9/11 -- Security-driven urban resilience policy -- Security planning in the public interest -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 6: Mainstreaming Security and Counter-Terrorism in the Planning Process -- Extending US safe growth approaches -- UK resilient urban design and spatial planning -- Planning for safety and security in Abu Dhabi -- Working together to defend 'soft targets' from terrorism -- Summary and conclusion -- Chapter 7: Security and Planning for the Future -- New integrated planning responses to insecurity -- Cardiff city centre public realm improvements -- A ring of steel for Melbourne -- Integrated security design in Times Square, New York -- Landscape security in a Paris city garden -- Blended security design in Brussels -- Summary and conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku ";Triple Disaster"; of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when they do. In this eye-opening journey through modern and ancient risk management practices, Jon Coaffee explains why we need to find a new way to navigate the deeply uncertain world that we live in. Examining how governments have responded to terrorist threats, climate change, and natural hazards, Coaffee shows how and why these measures have proven inadequate and what should be done to make us more resilient. While conventional approaches have focused on planning and preparing for disruptions and enhanced our ability to ";bounce back,"; our focus should be on anticipating future challenges and enhancing our capacity to adapt to new threats

Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when they do. In this eye-opening journey through modern and ancient risk management practices, Jon Coaffee explains why we need to find a new way to navigate the deeply uncertain world that we live in. Examining how governments have responded to terrorist threats, climate change, and natural disasters, Coaffee shows how and why these measures have proven inadequate and what should be done to make us more resilient. While conventional approaches have focused on planning and preparing for disruptions and enhanced our ability to "bounce back," our focus should be on anticipating future challenges and enhancing our capacity to adapt to new threats

Introduction : terrorism, risk, and the city -- Urban restructuring and the development of defensive landscapes -- Controlling the security discourse in the postmodern city -- Risk society and the global terrorist threat -- Constructing and reinforcing the ring of steel -- Distributing the financial risk of terrorism -- Framing, legitimating, and negotiating the city's response to terrorist risk -- Beating the bombers : a decade of counter terrorism in the city of London -- Terrorism and future urbanism.

Taking in regional management cases in the UK and Europe, as well as with the roles of women and theory, this e-book takes a local perspective on a global issue of how regional public sector management has developed, and how it is to develop in the future

Drawing on, and integrating, emerging theories and practices of urban resilience, this article charts the emergence and progression of different 'waves' of resilience policy in the UK. Specifically, it argues that changing practices of resilience have emerged both as a function of time, and in relation to a range of changing socio-political and economic pressures, which have re-articulated the meaning, scale, operational role of, and responsibility for, resilience. The article seeks to critique resilience policy, raising questions about the usefulness of emerging resilience as the central organising concept for depicting how urban systems respond to contemporary and future crises.

Urban areas are prime targets for international terrorists given the array of valuable physical and social infrastructure they contain. Whereas traditionally governmental, financial, critical infrastructure or military targets have been attacked, increasingly terrorism is targeted at everyday crowded urban spaces which are by their very nature difficult to defend. Subsequently this has led to a wave of pre-emptive and anticipatory counter-terrorism policy in the West in an attempt to secure the defence of the future city. In such policy-making urban terror attacks are viewed as inevitable and unavoidable, but the nature of such attacks is seen as fluid. Notably, recent commando-style attacks against non-western cities — in Mumbai and Lahore in late 2008 and early 2009 respectively — and against soft, unprotected targets has led to a reassessment of western urban security strategies and an assumption that such terrorist modus operandi will migrate to western cities. Such an uncritical reading, as exemplified by the western bias in media reporting in the aftermath of these events, highlights the need for scholars and policy-makers to engage with alternative readings of these events and illuminate the contextual factors underlying terrorism and its tactics, and target selection in particular locations. In developing a more rounded and reflexive understanding of terrorism as a method, planners and policy-makers might be in a better position to progress more nuanced security strategies that aim to tackle the underlying causes of terrorism rather than simply reacting through militarizing an increasing array of urban spaces.