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THE GUARDED AGE - DAVID J BETZ KARTONIERT (TB)

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolise 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 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 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.

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