Indefensible space
Subtitle: the architecture of the national insecurity state
By: by Michael Sorkin.
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780415953689; 9780415953672
Subjects: Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention; National security -- United States; Civil defense -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Fear -- Social aspects -- United States; Paranoia -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- Defenses -- Public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fear factor; title: Cities and the war on terror; title: Empire of the insensate; title: Urban operations and network centric warfare; title: Planet America : empire's new land grab; title: Waiting in African cities; title: Border tours : strategies of surveillance, tactics of encroachment; title: Re-stating the obvious; title: Threat from within : protecting the indefensible from the indeterminate; title: Blank slates and disaster zones : the state, September 11, and the displacement of Chinatown; title: Back to zero : mourning in America; title: New emotions of home : fear, insecurity, and paranoia; title: Stage authenticity today; title: Architecture emblematic : hardened sites and softened symbols; title: Me and my monkey : what's hiding in the security state; title: Thanatotactics; title: Short history of the car bomb.