The City as Target (Hardcover)

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 equally spatial, it differs from these others by implying some motive force, and, more than that, a force with some intentionality. To target is to aim, to project, and ultimately to impact. It suggests a space of violence, or at least action, or movement resulting in displacement, which most other terms do not. In that sense it is useful, underused, and perhaps revelatory. Rather than approach the city as simply a site of growth, processes, and developments, the contributors to this volume treat it as the recipient of attentions. The work draws on a wide variety of geographical sites and historic monuments in order to explore this concept, examining and challenging current urban theories. It seeks to highlight both the power of The Global City and the current vulnerability and fragility of urban culture, exploring the city as a recipient and a culprit in relation to issues including terrorism and urban warfare, the latest cyclical failure of global financial markets, and the relatively new spectre of environmental unsustainability. Offering a unique and relevant contribution to the literature, this work will be of great interest to scholars of urban theory, international relations, postcolonial politics and military studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Postcolonial Politics
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	Ryan Bishop • Gregory Clancey • John W. Phillips
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-68722-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	0-415-68722-5
Barcode:	9780415687225

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