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Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Perpetuating Cities: Excepting globalization and the southeast Asian supplement Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Yeo Wei-Wei 2. Global Cities, Terror and Tourism: The ambivalent allure of the urban jungle Kathleen Adams 3. The City as Target, or Perpetuation and Death Ryan Bishop and Gregory K. Clancey 4. From the Hypermodern City to the Gray Zone of Total Mobilization in the Philippines John Armitage and Joanne Roberts 5. Urban Space in the French Imperial Past and the Postcolonial Present Richard L. Derderian 6. Sharing Space in the Urban Botanic Gardens of Singapore and Malaysia, 1786-2000 Emma Reisz 7. Gay Capitals in Global City History: Cities, local markets and the origins of Bangkok's same sex cultures Peter A. Jackson 8. Actually Existing Postcolonialisms: Colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial turn Anthony D. King 9. Jakarta and the Zone of Fragmentation James Rosenau and Diane Wildsmith 10. Regionalism, English Narrative and Singapore as Home and Global City Shirley Geok-Lin Lim 11. Some Aspects of the Relations Between Governance, Order and Decent, Secure Life in Contemporary Cities with Colonial Pasts and Global Futures George E. Marcus and Angela Rivas Gamboa 12. City as Theatre: Singapore, state of distraction Yeo Wei-Wei 13. Perpetual Returns: Vampires and the ever-colonized city Steve Pile 14. Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Postcolonial City Rajeev Patke 15. Deus ex Machina: Evangelical sites, urbanism and the construction of social identities Robbie B. H. Goh

1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2. 'But with Malice Aforethought': Cities and the Natural History of Hatred Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water, Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke 14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of "Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National Security Doctrine Nick Cullather

Sample Contents (A-B): Abelard and Heloise. Abu Nuwas, al-Hasan. Acker, Kathy. Admirable Discourses of the Plain Girl. African Languages: Algeria (Mahgrib). African Languages: Tunisia (Mahgrib). Agustini, Delmira. Alas, Leopoldo. Albert-Birot, Pierre. Alcripe, Philippe d'. Amaru. Amis, Martin. Andreev, Leonid. Angel, Albalucia. Anti-Clericalism. Aphrodisiacs. Apollinaire, Guillaume. Apuleius. Arabic: Middle Ages to 19th Century. Arcan, Nelly. Aretinists. Aretino, Pietro. Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'. Art of the Bedchamber Literature. Artaud, Antonin. Artsybashev, Mikhail. Ashbee, Henry Spencer. Auden, W.H.. Autobiography of a Flea. Aventures Satyriques de Florinde, Les. Babel, Isaac. Bai, Xingjian. Balzac, Honore de. Ban, Jieyu. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amedee. Bataille, Georges. Baudelaire, Charles. Bealu, Marcel, Passage de la Bete. Beauvoir, Simone de. Beckford, William. Belen (Nelly Kaplan). Belot, Adolphe. Beranger, Pierre Jean de. Berg, Jean[ne] de. Bestiality. Bi Yu Lou (The Jades Pavilion). Blasons du Corps. Blessebois, Pierre Corneille. Boccaccio. Bonaventure des Periers. Bonnetain, Paul. Book of Odes (Shih-Ching). Borel, Petrus. Boullosa, Carmen. Bourgeade, Pierre. Bousquet, Joe. Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille Seigneur de. Brazil. Breast. Bright, Susie. Bukowski, Charles. Burroughs, William S.. Burton, Sir Richard F.. Byrd II, William

In 1997 on National Day in Singapore the majority of the nation watched an event live on television staged in the National Stadium.1 What they also saw were the thousands who had queued up to be there in person to watch the armed forces as they reconstructed the history of urban development in Singapore, which they did with a scaled-down model city made up of landmark buildings on wheels. The crowning moment was the arrival of the National Stadium itself, surrounded by a towering city of inhabitants who literally watched themselves watching themselves watching . . . (see Fig. 14.1.)The argument that follows concerns the emergence of certain trends associated with phenomena of archiving, which I regard as a constitutive component of modern urbanism. The main claims of the argument are as follows: first, that a specific mode of archiving, which I propose to analyze under the phrase the new archive, should be regarded as a constitutional factor in the social and political reality of modern urbanism; second, that this mode of archiving militatespowerfully against any attempts institutionally to deal with the realities of modern urbanism; and, third, that the trends associated with the new archive are especially dominant and powerful in the city state of Singapore.