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This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and epidemics. It asks, for example: How have cities responded in times of crisis, and what practices, infrastructures, and/or institutions have they introduced to prevent disasters from reoccurring? Who suffers most when urban disasters strike, and why? In what ways do catastrophes change cities? How, if at all, are cities unique from the countryside? To answer these questions and more, this concise history looks at a series of case studies from the eighteenth century through to COVID-19. The Element concludes with a brief look at the ongoing effects of climate change and the future of cities

Satire and politics in the New Orleans flood of 1849 / Greg O'Brien -- Epidemics, empire, and eradication : global public health and yellow fever control in New Orleans / Urmi Engineer -- The complete story of the Galveston horror : trauma, history, and the great storm of 1900 / Andy Horowitz -- The 1928 hurricane in Florida and the wider Caribbean / Christopher M. Church -- Swamp things : invasive species as environmental disaster in the Gulf South / Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus -- Political-ecological emergence of space and vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans / Roberto E. Barrios -- Katrina is coming to your city : storm- and flood-defense infrastructures in risk society / Kevin Fox Gotham

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Introduction CINDY ERMUS -- Satire and Politics in the New Orleans Flood of 1849 GREG O'BRIEN -- Epidemics, Empire, and Eradication Global Public Health and Yellow Fever Control in New Orleans URMI ENGINEER WILLOUGHBY -- The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror Trauma, History, and the Great Storm of 1900 ANDY HOROWITZ -- The 1928 Hurricane in Florida and the Wider Caribbean CHRISTOPHER M. CHURCH -- Swamp Things Invasive Species as Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South ABRAHAM H. GIBSON and CINDY ERMUS -- Political-Ecological Emergence of Space and Vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans ROBERTO E. BARRIOS -- Katrina Is Coming to Your City Storm- and Flood-Defense Infrastructures in Risk Society KEVIN FOX GOTHAM -- Afterword TED STEINBERG -- Contributors -- Index.