GGRC13H3 Lecture 5: Lecture #5
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What aspects of liberty and community are we willing to give up for the sake of. Instead of community cohesion, functionality or other planning ideals, the. presumption of danger becomes the defining criterion for [urban] planning (sorkin: xiii). In recent years, urban surveillance and urban security have become a much-researched areas within urban political geography. To davis, hardening" refers to the growth of physical, surveillant and imaginative barriers separating different people in cities. As some have pointed out, it is not terrorism, but governments" responses to terrorism that have had a significant effect on cities since the attack on the world trade centre on. This has not entailed the adoption of entirely new trends, but the intensification of trends towards the securitization of urban space that had been well underway for many years. There is a new interface between urban planning and military planning (sorkin p. x).
