id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-287304-h6wj7m8u Keil, Roger Governing the Sick City: Urban Governance in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease 2007-12-07 .txt text/plain 11689 450 45 While there has been much attention in recent years on the significance of global city regions in the new world economy (Brenner and Keil 2006) and while the governance and regulation of these regions has captured the imagination of academics and policymakers alike (Buck et al 2005; Harding 2005; Heinelt and Kübler 2005; Kantor and Savitch 2005; Scott 2001) , little has been said specifically about the growing pressures posed by the potential threat of infectious disease through the global network on urban governance. 2 For the area of urban planning and governance a more or less critical literature has begun to explore the spaces that cities have to maneuver in the rather open field of infectious disease preparedness planning and public health since the onset of the "new normal" after the attacks of 9/11 Malizia 2006; Matthew and Macdonald 2006) . ./cache/cord-287304-h6wj7m8u.txt ./txt/cord-287304-h6wj7m8u.txt