The city as target / edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory K. Clancey and John Phillips.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bishop, Ryan, 1959-

Clancey, Gregory K.

Phillips, John, 1956-

Series:

Postcolonial politics ; 4.

Postcolonial politics ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Violence.

Disasters.

Terrorism.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Cities as targets / Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips

"But with malice aforethought" : cities and the natural history of hatred / Nigel Thrift

Targeting the imaginist city / John Armitage

The refugee war / Eyal Weizman

Theme park archipelago : convergences of war, simulation and entertainment in urban targeting / Steve Graham

Empire or imperialism : implications for a "new" politics of resistance / Pal Ahluwalia

The city-as-target : targeting the city / Verena Andermatt Conley

Tokyo : water, earthquake, and island universe / Suzuki Hiroyuki

Vast clearings : emergency, technology, and American de-urbanization, 1930-1945 / Gregory Clancey

Concealment and exposure : imagining London after the Great Fire / Li Shiqiao

Moscow : fortress city / Irina Aristarkhova

Ars memoria and unbombing / Tjebbe van Tijen

London : the imperial target / Rajeev Patke

Keizu to Nendaiki : making and erasing history in Tsukuba Science City at the edge of empire / Sharon Traweek

The city and the economy of "losing" : targeting competitive bodies in an era of global competition / Robbie Goh

The absorptive assemblage / Jordan Crandall

"The target is the people" : representations of the village in modernization and national security doctrine / Nick Cullather.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415687225

0415687225

9780203154359

0203154355

OCLC:

714730575