The city as target
By: edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory K. Clancey and John Phillips
Series: Postcolonial politics ; 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780415687225; 9780203154359
Subjects: Cities and towns; Terrorism; Violence; Disasters; City planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cities as targets / Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips; title: "But with malice aforethought" : cities and the natural history of hatred / Nigel Thrift; title: Targeting the imaginist city / John Armitage; title: The refugee war / Eyal Weizman; title: Theme park archipelago : convergences of war, simulation and entertainment in urban targeting / Steve Graham; title: Empire or imperialism : implications for a "new" politics of resistance / Pal Ahluwalia; title: The city-as-target : targeting the city / Verena Andermatt Conley; title: Tokyo : water, earthquake, and island universe / Suzuki Hiroyuki; title: Vast clearings : emergency, technology, and American de-urbanization, 1930-1945 / Gregory Clancey; title: Concealment and exposure : imagining London after the Great Fire / Li Shiqiao; title: Moscow : fortress city / Irina Aristarkhova; title: Ars memoria and unbombing / Tjebbe van Tijen; title: London : the imperial target / Rajeev Patke; title: Keizu to Nendaiki : making and erasing history in Tsukuba Science City at the edge of empire / Sharon Traweek; title: The city and the economy of "losing" : targeting competitive bodies in an era of global competition / Robbie Goh; title: The absorptive assemblage / Jordan Crandall; title: "The target is the people" : representations of the village in modernization and national security doctrine / Nick Cullather.