The feral city

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The feral city



In 2003, Richard J. Norton of the U.S. Naval War College wrote a paper in the Naval War College Review titled ‘Feral Cities: The New Strategic Environment‘. This often overlooked article was described earlier this year by Anthony Townsend, Research Director at the Institute for the Future, as “[o]ne of the most influential pieces of contemporary urban theory I’ve ever read”.

Norton described the scenario:

Imagine a great metropolis covering hundreds of square miles. Once a vital component in a national economy, this sprawling urban environment is now a vast collection of blighted buildings, an immense petr dish of both ancient and new diseases, a territory where the rule of law has long been replaced by near anarchy in which the only security available is that which is attained through brute power. Such cities have been routinely imagined in apocalyptic movies and in certain science-fiction genres, where they are often portrayed as gigantic versions of T.S. Eliot Rat’s Alley. Yet this city would still be globally connected. It would possess at least a modicum of commercial linkages, and some of its inhabitants would have access to the world’s most modern communication and computing technologies. It would, in effect, be a feral city.


http://ubiwar.com/2008/09/24/information-l...the-feral-city/



Feral cities - The New Strategic Environment
Naval War College Review, Autumn, 2003 by Richard J. Norton

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I'm feral, but pretty rural really.

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