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See Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, eds., After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (NY: Routledge, 2002); Joan Ockman, ed., Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention (Munich: Prestel, 2002); Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella, eds., The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (NY: Oxford, 2005).

In addition to Light’s chapter, a number of other scholars have studied the 1950s dispersal debates; for example, Michael Quinn Dudley, ‘‘Sprawl as Strategy: City Planners Face the Bomb,’’ Journal of Planning Education and Research 21 (2001): 52-63; Matthew Farish, ‘‘Disaster and Decentralization: American Cities and the Cold War,’’ cultural geographies 10, no. 2 (2003): 136-38; David F. Krugler, This Is Only A Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: the United States Since the 1930s (New Haven: Yale, 1995) established a historical framework that has inspired subsequent scholarship on the militarization of everyday life in the United States, such as Laura McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000). In architectural writing, a focus on the militarization of everyday environments is exemplified by scholarship on the securing, or ‘‘hardening,’’ of urban and public spaces; see Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (NY: Vintage, 1992); the essays in Nan Ellin, ed., Architecture of Fear (NY: Princeton Architectural, 1997); Michael Sorkin, ed., Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (NY: Hill & Wang, 1992); and Michael Sorkin, ed., Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State (New York and London: Routledge, 2008). Geographers also have taken up the theme; See, for instance, Steven Flusty, De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out (London and New York: Routledge, 2004); and the essays in Part III of Steven Graham, ed., Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).