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Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics

Stephen Graham (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1575-9
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412 pages
December 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Plates.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency: Stephen Graham (University of Durham).

Part I: Cities, War and Terrorism in History and Theory.

1 Cities as Strategic Sites : Place Annihilation and Urban Geopolitics: Stephen Graham (University of Durham).

2 The City-as-Target, or Perpetuation and Death: Ryan Bishop and Gregory Clancey (National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore).

3 Shadow Architectures : War, Memories, and Berlin’s Futures: Simon Guy (University of Newcastle).

4 Another Anxious Urbanism: Simulating Defence and Disaster in Cold War America: Matthew Farish (University of Toronto).

5 Living (Occasionally Dying) Together in an Urban World: Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds and the University of Warsaw).

6 Everyday Techniques as Extraordinary Threats: Urban Technostructures and Nonplaces in Terrorist Actions: Timothy W. Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia).

Part II: Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare.

7 New Wars of the City : Relationships of 'Urbicide' and 'Genocide': Martin Shaw (University of Sussex).

8 Urbicide in Bosnia: Martin Coward (University of Sussex).

9 Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces and Political Volumes: Ariel Sharon and The Geometry of Occupation: Eyal Weizmann (an architect based in Tel Aviv and London).

10 Constructing Urbicide by Bulldozer in the Occupied Territories: Stephen Graham.

11 City Streets – The War Zones of Globalisation: Democracy and Military Operations in Urban Terrain in the Early 21st Century: Robert Warren (University of Delaware).

12 Continuity and Discontinuity : The Grammar of Urban Military Operations : Alice Hills (King’s College, London).

Part III: Exposed Cities : Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’.

13 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield: Michael Sorkin (CCNY).

14 The “War on Terrorism” and Life in Cities after September 11, 2001: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University in New York City).

15 Recasting the ‘Ring of Steel’: Designing Out Terrorism in the City Of London? Jon Coaffee (University of Newcastle).

16 Technology vs. ‘Terrorism’: Circuits of City Surveillance Since September 11: David Lyon (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario).

17 Urban Dimensions of the Punishment of Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs: Marc W. Herold (University of New Hampshire in Durham).

Epilogue: Stephen Graham.

Bibliography.

Index

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