Urban planning and defense planning, past and future.

Since the facts of September 11, 2001, there has been a great deal of talk about the future of American cities. With the "War upon Terrorism" projected to last for years and urban areas understood to possess its domestic frontlines, the nation's city officials have begun to acknowledge that defense planning must become a of recent origin priority (Hoene et al., 2002; Security Design Coalition, 2002; Urban Land Institute, 2002) In cities across the nation--even a certain quantity of such as Seattle, where city councilors vot to cast aside the provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act--administrations have begun to work with security skilfuls to identify potential threats, prepare preventive