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Book SynopsisFronts uncovers a growing geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world which it increasingly incriminates. Military training sites, and the real-world informal environments they replicate, provide a lens through which we can better understand the shape of the city to come. While the world continues to urbanise, military doctrine has recently and dramatically shifted to view the world's cities as suspect sites of potential aggression. As the majority of new urban life will manifest as informal development, the world is now more than ever explicitly divided in two camps: those who view the informal city as an opportunity, and those who view the informal city as a threat. This paradigmatic shift has set the stage for impending conflict between security and development interests, which take the informal city as their site.
Trade Review"As security regimes expand into either the remainders of the nation state or territories outside of law, spatial evidence gains new authority within the usual legal or economic assessments. FRONTS tracks and graphically measures those heavy precipitates of global capital and military conflict as they mix in toxic spatial cocktails of logistics, humanitarianism, militarism, training, and incarceration." Keller Easterling--Architect; Professor & Director of the Master of Environmental Design Program, Yale University; Author, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space--Keller Easterling "Keller Easterling " "Kripa and Mueller peel back the curtain on the spreading geography of urban simulation. This astonishing original research illuminates the future of military urbanism by interrogating it at its source." Trevor Paglen--Artist; Geographer; Author, Invisible: Covert Operations and Invisible Landscapes--Trevor Paglen "Trevor Paglen "
