This is long overdue. But, alas, the visible spectrum of urbanisms at the border never ceases to amaze me.
MILITARY URBANISM
Save Iraq One Switch at a Time : High Tech Versus Low : The Builders : Navy wants to build a 661-square-mile sonar practice range off the North Carolina coast : Can you say "Permanent Bases"? : San Antonio's Economic Pillar: The Military
U.S., Britain conduct nuclear experiment at Nevada Test Site
U.S. government stages "mock attack" exercise to shut down bloggers : Rumsfeld's Incomplete Information War : Justices side with military recruiters
Jump, roll and leap into 'parkour' : Subtopia: Peripheral Milit_Urb 1 & 2
The Post-Military Context
Ukrainian Museum Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Chornobyl Disaster with Multi-Media Exhibition Chronicling Life in Affected Areas
War tourists fight to see Bosnia's past
Your very own Russian aircraft carrier - converted into a floating theme park with a movie theater and restaurants
Foster Redeveloping Island in St. Petersburg, Russia
BORDER ZONE
The Architecture of Israel�s Brutal Occupation & its "Matrix of Control" : Rogers supports the Israeli Security Wall : The Israeli Wall, the Javits Center and the Bullying of an Architect
Set on bare steep hills, the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm is known for its religious conservatism, but an Israeli Arab gallery breaks taboos : nearby, Israel closed a key trading point, costing Palestinians $500,000 a day, says the UN.
Israel Expects to Draw Borders by 2010 : Hamas attacks the plan (Disengagement's Architect Outlines West Bank Pullout)
Jo'burg and Jerusalem ... worlds apart? : Colonialism, Capitalism and the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada : Owner-Occupied Homes Wthin Gated Communities is Growing Phenomenon in U.S. : Magical Urbanism: Fortress Cape Town (pt. 1)
"Thinking of Walls"
Musharraf for border fence to fight Qaeda
Pruned: Komsomolets
From Shanty to Sheek
Villagers left in limbo by border fence (video)
Along the border, a land held hostage
Wal-Mart employees expose illegal immigrant's, not terror cell's, bulk phone purchase
Fake doctor gave immigrants phony vaccinations, filed false records
Space and Culture: Theories of the Present
Sex dolls fight Mexican machismo
REFUGEE URBANISM
The Street Samaritans : One million bikes to help alleviate poverty
Darfur's turn for the worse
Refugee Camps or Cities? The Socio-economic Dynamics of the Dadaab and Kakuma Camps in Northern Kenya
The world's lost people: neither refugees nor citizens
Quake aid gives radical Islam a stage
The amazing DIY village FM radio station
SURVEILLANCE
Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas : Marine animals used as ocean sensors
Unmanned planes to monitor traffic
BLDGBLOG: Thousand Mile Colosseum
Why Data Mining Won't Stop Terror
The Plays and Arts of Surveillance (pdf) (via Anne)
SVEN - Surveillance Video Entertainment Network
Experiments with Territories: Post Cartographic Map Design
Some companies helped the NSA, but which?
RFID of The Beast
SQUATTER URBANISM
a different conception of property rights : Organizing squatters
S.Lanka tsunami-displaced squat to demand new homes
="http:>Clashes over land roil China's poor
Slum Ecology (Mike Davis)
The Politics of Squatter (Gecekondu) Studies in Turkey (pdf) (Tahire Erman)
Portable med-library in a crate for use in developing world
="http:> AirWater machines for guerrilla infrastructure
The Geography of Poverty and Wealth
Water policy 'fails world's poor'
(This was posted simultaneously on Subtopia)
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