Cities, War, and Terrorism
Subtitle: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Contributors: Stephen Graham (Contributor); Matthew Farish (Contributor); Zygmunt Bauman (Contributor); Ryan Bishop (Contributor); Gregory Clancey (Contributor); Jon Coaffee (Contributor); Simon Guy (Contributor); Marc Herold (Contributor); Martin Coward (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781405115759
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Urban communities; Warfare & Defence; Terrorism; Sociology; Social Science; Urban warfare; Human Geography; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Sociology - General; Cities and towns
First sentence: Arguably, humankind has expended almost as much energy, effort, and thought on the attempted annihilation and killing of cities as it has on their planning, construction, and growth (Berman, 1996).