The City as Target (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bishop, Ryan; Phillips, John W.; Clancey, Gregory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136577789
• Artikelnr.: 38269784

Autorenporträt

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics and co-Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Gregory Clancey is an Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, and the Master of Tembusu College. John W P Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at The National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2.
'But with Malice Aforethought': Cities and the Natural History of Hatred
Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee
War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation
and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism:
Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The
City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water,
Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings:
Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory
Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire
Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and
Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke
14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City
at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of
"Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition
Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is
the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National
Security Doctrine Nick Cullather