Cities, War, and Terrorism
Subtitle: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781405115742
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Social Science; Sociology; Terrorism; Human Geography; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Sociology - General; Cities and towns; Urban warfare
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).