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03062aam a2200445 i 4500 001 C2181D92FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240416010052 008 230528t20242024enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1509544046 020 $a 9781509544042 020 $a 1509544054 020 $a 9781509544059 035 $a (OCoLC)1380459572 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d ZWZ $d OCLCO $d WRM $d SILO 050 4 $a UG405 $b .B48 2024 082 04 $a 623/.1 $2 23/eng/20240220 082 04 $a 690/.22 $2 23 100 1 $a Betz, David, $d 1969- $e author. 245 14 $a The guarded age : $b fortification in the twenty-first century / $c David J. Betz. 264 1 $a Cambridge, UK ; $b Polity Press, $c 2024. 300 $a ix, 238 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The rise of the walls -- 2 Civilization, war, and guardedness -- 3 Contemporary military fortification -- 4 Storming the city -- 5 Securing the city -- 6 Hiding in plain sight -- 7 Luxury forts to data bunkers -- Further reading. 520 $a "The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and - quite literally - fortified. We are living in a guarded age. Why and how has this happened? Where will it take us? In this book, David J. Betz explores the expansion of fortified physical infrastructure at every level of the global political economy. In cities, where security is increasingly 'designed in' to public buildings and spaces as they are reshaped to mitigate mass terror attacks. Within corporations, who are burying their electronic assets in deep underground caverns and behind the leaded walls of ex-nuclear war bunkers against a range of threats and feared contingencies. In many urban areas, where the default condition of civil life is to be walled, gated, watched, and guarded. Year after year, hundreds of miles of linear obstacles - walls, ditches, and watchtowers - are added to national borders. Practically everywhere you look there are signs of innovative fortification, often designed to be overlooked. The Guarded Age reveals the barriers which most have observed but few - until reading this book - have truly seen."--Publisher's website. 650 0 $a Fortification. 650 0 $a Fortification $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Fortification $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Terrorism $x Prevention. 650 0 $a Buildings $x Protection. 650 6 $a Constructions $x Protection. 650 6 $a Terrorisme $x PreÌvention. 650 7 $a Buildings $x Protection $2 fast 650 7 $a Fortification $2 fast 650 7 $a Fortifications. $2 ram 650 7 $a Constructions $x Protection. $2 ram 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240416012015.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C2181D92FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search