Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State

by Sorkin,Michael; Sorkin,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415953672
• ISBN10: 0415953677
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Indefensible Space explores is the increasing envelopment of public space and life by an architecture of security/paranoia. From the most literal level, barriers in front of buildings, to more abstract levels, enhanced surveillance of public spaces.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Fear Factor	p. vii
Cities and the 'War on Terror'	p. 1
Empire of the Insensate	p. 29
Urban Operations and Network Centric Warfare	p. 51
Planet America: Empire's New Land Grab	p. 79
Waiting in African Cities	p. 97
Border Tours: Strategies of Surveillance, Tactics of Encroachment	p. 111
Restating the Obvious	p. 141
The Threat from Within: Protecting the Indefensible from the Indeterminate	p. 163
Blank Slates and Disaster Zones: The State, September 11, and the Displacement of Chinatown	p. 177
Back to Zero: Mourning in America	p. 213
The New Emotions of Home: Fear, Insecurity, and Paranoia	p. 233
Staged Authenticity Today	p. 259
Architecture Emblematic: Hardened Sites and Softened Symbols	p. 277
Me and My Monkey: What's Hiding in the Security State	p. 305
Thanatotactics	p. 325
'The Poor Man's Airforce": A Brief History of the Car Bomb	p. 351
Contributor Notes	p. 377
Index	p. 385
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