Congratulations! You're about to learn insider secrets to survive disasters, pandemics, economic collapse, and breakdowns in civil order...even if leaving the city isn't an option! This book is different than other survival books. It is a full-fledged 12 week Urban Survival Course that will walk you through the process of getting prepared for urban survival. Every chapter is designed to be completed in one week and it will give you a "Here's what to do next" set of action steps to complete. By the end of the course, you won't have a head full of useless information that you'll soon forget like you do with other books. Rather, you'll have dozens of new practical urban survival skills that will be hard wired into your brain so you will be able to react immediately and use them without hesitation. "Urban Survival Guide" is a must have for prepared families who might have to survive disasters in urban areas.

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home—if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won’t? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.

The complete guide to survival in the concrete jungle. The modern urban environment is rife with dangers. Crime, violence, natural disasters, wars, and terrorism are real life possibilities for which few people are prepared. The Art of Urban Survival offers readers simple, safe, and practical advice on how to prepare for, and react to dozens of life threatening situations. The author draws from psychology, sociology and anthropology to provide a deeper understanding of the laws of the urban jungle. In addition, elements of military strategy, eastern martial arts, and wilderness survival techniques are included to provide information on the full spectrum of urban survival skills.

Although conditions have vastly improved since the days of sweatshops, the working woman is still likely to be underpaid, overworked, and without adequate resources. In Urban Survival eight working-class women of different ages and races speak with pride and independence about their daily reality, their hopes and fears. Ruth Sidel’s new introduction shows that although she interviewed the women in the late seventies, their concerns are still current. Now, as then, the working woman worries about obtaining needed childcare, healthcare, and social services; about being the last hired and first fired; about welfare, drugs, and violence. The oral histories in Urban Survival reveal a vivid picture of the struggle for survival in today’s cities.

Do you fear the unknown? Are you unprepared for the unexpected? Urban Survival: London's Hidden Guide is your ultimate resource for surviving in London, even when the odds are against you. Think of it as your personal survival handbook, written by someone who has been in your shoes and faced the challenges head-on. What if the unthinkable happens in London? How will you survive? How can you protect your loved ones? This book provides practical answers to these questions and more, equipping you with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate, scavenge, and defend in the urban jungle of London. Inside this guide, you'll discover: - Survival techniques specifically designed for London's unique environment. - Psychological strategies to manage stress and maintain morale during tough times. - London's hidden resources that could be your lifeline in a survival situation. - Lessons from historical events that parallel contemporary survival scenarios. - The most essential survival tools and equipment, tailored for an urban environment. - Strategies for finding and purifying water, and foraging for food in the city. - Basic medical skills and first aid knowledge to save lives in a crisis. - Communication methods and their potential risks in a survival scenario. - London's infrastructure - its strengths, weaknesses, and how to use them to your advantage. - Techniques for evasion and escape, and tactics for staying inconspicuous in the city. - Urban tactics for defense, fortification, and reconnaissance. - Insights on the potential long-term consequences of surviving in a post-apocalyptic London. If you want to prepare for the unexpected and ensure the safety of your loved ones in any situation, this book is your ultimate guide. Buy it today and step into a world of survival expertise.

With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and social dislocations, combining both theoretical advancements and detailed empirical studies, centering on Berlin, Dublin and Vienna. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low-rent housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labour power whilst being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance, including landlords, employers and inter-scalar state practices, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side, and capital accumulation on the other. Building on Soederberg’s previous book Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, this accessible and interdisciplinary text will be useful to academics and students in political science, sociology, geography, urban studies, labour studies, European studies and gender studies.

Practical Guidelines to Resourceful City Living, Self-reliance, Emergency Preparedness, and Getting More for Less A survival guidebook that reflects the world in which we now find ourselves. The post 9/11 world seems a bit more hostile, as terrorist threats and attacks are no longer a surprise. The Great Tsunami of Christmas 2004 showed us that quick extinctions (like Noah’s flood) can and do happen without apparent warning. Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy not only told us that it can happen to us, but that it is foolhardy to make no preparations and pretend that the government will take care of you in the post-disaster landscape. The price of gold id rising again. War, rumors of war, famines, political instability, economic instability, global pandemics – all these and more are causes of concern to the average family. Economic survival is also addresses, since this is such a fundamental building block of everything else in modern society. Money cannot be ignored.