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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen GrahamPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.546kg ISBN: 9781844677627ISBN 10: 1844677621 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 01 November 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsRoll over Jane Jacobs: here s urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. A fundamental and very scary report from the global red zone.--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums Superb ... Graham builds on the writings of Mike Davis and Naomi Klein who have attempted to expose the hidden corporate and military structures behind everyday life. --Edwin Heathcote Superb ... Graham builds on the writings of Mike Davis and Naomi Klein who have attempted to expose the hidden corporate and military structures behind everyday life. Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times A rigorously researched, pioneering book packed with disturbing and at times astonishing information. Icon Sharp, lucid and elegant prose ...Graham is consistently insightful and compelling. Cities Under Siege is an indispensable analysis of the dark fantasies that the military imagination is seeking to realise in the coming century. Red Pepper Roll over Jane Jacobs: here's urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. A fundamental and very scary report from the global red zone. Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums Cities Under Siege is a detailed and intense forensics of new urban frontiers, laboratories of the extreme where experiments with new urban conditions are currently being undertaken. In this fascinating new work Steven Graham has created a novel concept of the city, looking at war as the limit condition of urbanity and calling for an alternative urban life yet to come. Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land A brilliant critique of the deadly embrace of military violence and contemporary urbanism. Steve Graham writes with immense power and lucidity, layering detail over detail and image over image to expose the shadows that are falling across cities around the world. This is not a dystopian future but the present, and Graham compels us to open our eyes to the dangers military urbanism poses to contemporary democracy. Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia and author of The Colonial Present Author InformationStephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit and is based in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |