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The city as target / edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory K. Clancey and John Phillips.
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English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
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xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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HM1101 .C58 2012
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Cities and towns
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Violence
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Disasters
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Terrorism
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City planning
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Bishop, Ryan, 1959-
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Clancey, Gregory K.
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Phillips, John, 1956-
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Postcolonial politics ; 4.
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Postcolonial politics ; 4
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Summary note
Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, this text provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780415687225 ((hbk.))
0415687225 ((hbk.))
9780203154359 ((ebk))
0203154355 ((ebk))
LCCN
2011022758
OCLC
714730575
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