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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780415687225 ((hbk.))
    • 0415687225 ((hbk.))
    • 9780203154359 ((ebk))
    • 0203154355 ((ebk))
    LCCN
    2011022758
    OCLC
    714730575
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