Terrorism and the Resilience of Cities

[...]In this article, we consider what these risks, and the publicperception of them, mean for cities in general and for thefuture of New York City in particular. We begin by examiningthe question of why cities exist at all. Only by answering thisimportant question can we think more clearly about the longruneffects of terrorism on cities.The economic analysis of cities is an active area of research,and we draw on that work for our study. The consensus amongeconomists is that there are a number of plausible explanations,or models, for the existence of cities. Accordingly, we apply twoeconomic geography models—the “labor pooling” and “coreperiphery” models—to our analysis of the existence of citiesand terrorism’s effect on them. Our use of these two differenttheoretical models gives a broad perspective to our study.[...]