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Summary
Summary
Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal level--barricades and barriers in front of buildings, beefed up border patrols, gated communities, "safe rooms,"--to more abstract levels--enhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports, increasing worries about contagion, the psychological predilection for fortified space--the contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twenty-first century America
Author Notes
Michael Sorkin is an architect, professional writer, and professor at City College. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and is generally regarded as one of the most prominent architectural writers in America.
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 |
