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UNINA9910145304503321 |
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Titolo |
Cities, war, and terrorism [[electronic resource] ] : towards an urban geopolitics / / edited by Stephen Graham |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-32279-2 |
9786611322793 |
0-470-75303-X |
0-470-75302-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in urban and social change |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns |
Urban warfare |
Terrorism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-370) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CITIES, WAR, AND TERRORISM: TOWARDS AN URBAN GEOPOLITICS; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Introduction: Cities, Warfare, and States of Emergency; Part I: Cities, War, and Terrorism in History and Theory; Introduction to Part I; 1 Cities as Strategic Sites: Place Annihilation and Urban Geopolitics; 2 The City-as-Target, or Perpetuation and Death; 3 Shadow Architectures: War, Memories, and Berlin's Futures; 4 Another Anxious Urbanism: Simulating Defense and Disaster in Cold War America |
5 Living (Occasionally Dying) Together in an Urban World6 Everyday Technics as Extraordinary Threats: Urban Technostructures and Non-Places in Terrorist Actions; Part II: Urbicide and the Urbanization of Warfare; Introduction to Part II; 7 New Wars of the City: Relationships of ''Urbicide'' and ''Genocide''; 8 Urbicide in Bosnia; 9 Strategic Points, Flexible Lines, Tense Surfaces, and Political Volumes: Ariel Sharon and the Geometry of Occupation; 10 Constructing Urbicide by Bulldozer in the Occupied Territories |
11 City Streets -- The War Zones of Globalization: Democracy and |
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Military Operations on Urban Terrain in the Early Twenty-First Century12 Continuity and Discontinuity: The Grammar of Urban Military Operations; Part III: Exposed Cities: Urban Impacts of Terrorism and the ''War on Terror''; Introduction to Part III; 13 Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield; 14 The ''War on Terrorism'' and Life in Cities after September 11, 2001; 15 Recasting the ''Ring of Steel'': Designing Out Terrorism in the City of London? |
16 Technology vs. ''Terrorism'': Circuits of City Surveillance Since September 11, 200117 Urban Dimensions of the Punishment of Afghanistan by US Bombs; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Cities, War and Terrorism is the first book to look critically at the ways in which warfare, terrorism and counter-terrorism policies intersect in cities in the post Cold-War period. A path-breaking exploration of the intersections of war, terrorism and citiesArgues that contemporary cities are the key strategic sites of geopolitical conflictWritten by the world's leading analysts of the intersections of urban space and military and terrorist violenceDraws on cutting-edge research from geography, history, architecture, planning, sociology, critical |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN00277688 |
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Autore |
Navarro, Jorge |
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Introduction to System Reliability Theory / Jorge Navarro |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xii, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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90B06 - Transportation, logistics and supply chain management [MSC 2020] |
90B25 - Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research [MSC 2020] |
90Bxx - Operations research and management science [MSC 2020] |
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