Cities, war, and terrorism : towards an urban geopolitics / edited by Stephen Graham.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-370) and index.

Introduction : cities, warfare, and states of emergency / Stephen Graham -- 1. Cities as strategic sites : place annihilation and urban geopolitics / Stephen Graham -- 2. The city-as-target, or perpetuation and death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory Clancey -- 3. Shadow architectures : war, memories, and Berlin's futures / Simon Guy -- 4. Another anxious urbanism : simulating defense and disaster in Cold War America / Matthew Farish -- 5. Living (occasionally dying) together in an urban world / Zygmunt Bauman -- 6. Everyday technics as extraordinary threats : urban technostructures and non-places in terrorist actions / Timothy W. Luke -- 7. New wars of the city : relationships of "urbicide" and "genocide" / Martin Shaw -- 8. Urbicide in Bosnia / Martin Coward -- 9. Strategic points, flexible lines, tense surfaces, and political volumes : Ariel Sharon and the geometry of occupation / Eyal Weizman -- 10. Constructing urbicide by bulldozer in the occupied territories / Stephen Graham -- 11. City streets - the war zones of globalization : democracy and military operations on urban terrain in the early twenty-first century / Robert Warren -- 12. Continuity and discontinuity : the grammar of urban military operations / Alice Hills -- 13. Urban warfare : a tour of the battlefield / Michael Sorkin -- 14. The "war on terrorism" and life in cities after September 11, 2001 / Peter Marcuse -- 15. Recasting the "ring of steel" : designing out terrorism in the city of London? / Jon Coaffee -- 16. Technology vs. "terrorism" : circuits of city surveillance since September 11, 2001 / David Lyon -- 17. Urban dimensions of the punishment of Afghanistan by US bombs / Marc W. Herold -- Epilogue / Stephen Graham.

"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. The book brings together new writing by the world's leading analysts of urban space and military and terrorist violence from the fields of geography, architecture, planning, sociology, critical theory, politics, international relations, and military studies. Arguing that urban spaces are now the critical, strategic sites of geopolitical struggle, the contributors combine cutting-edge theoretical reflections with path-breaking empirical case studies. They provide up-to-date analyses of a range of specific urban sites, including those involved in the Cold War, the Balkan wars, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 9/11 attacks, the "War on Terror" attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, and urban anti-globalization battles." "Taken as a whole, the book offers both specialist and non-specialist readers a sophisticated perspective on the violence that is engulfing our increasingly urbanized world."--BOOK JACKET.