336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies, the word target is rarely encountered. Though... Read more

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

Biography

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.