The city as target /

The city as target / edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory K. Clancey and John Phillips. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Postcolonial politics ; 4 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Cities and towns.
Violence.
Disasters.
Terrorism.
City planning.

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