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The Adaptive, Human-Centred Safe City Cities are becoming more connected, more visible and more dependent on intelligence and digital systems. These changes have expanded the capacity of public safety institutions, but they have also increased the consequences of how authority is exercised in practice. Safety today is shaped not only by technology and infrastructure, but by judgement, governance and trust. The Adaptive, Human-Centred Safe City examines how public safety is changing under conditions of complexity, connectivity and continuous scrutiny. It argues that effectiveness can no longer be measured by efficiency or response alone. Sustainable safety depends on institutions that can learn, adapt and act with legitimacy over time, particularly when uncertainty and pressure are sustained. Drawing on real-world operational contexts, the book explores the role of intelligence, artificial intelligence and digital systems in public safety, and the conditions under which they strengthen rather than weaken professional judgement and public confidence. It examines governance, leadership, culture and wellbeing as practical foundations of adaptive capability, and shows how trust is produced through everyday practice rather than policy intent. Introducing the idea of a Fifth Horizon of public safety, the book frames adaptation not as an endpoint or reform programme, but as an ongoing condition in which responsibility, learning and restraint become central to professional authority. It offers a grounded account of what it takes to govern safety in a connected world, where power is exercised in full view of the public it serves. Written for public safety leaders, policymakers, system designers and practitioners, this book provides a clear and disciplined framework for understanding how cities can protect life, sustain confidence and govern safety with integrity as conditions continue to change.

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