Introduction: Terrorism as a Threat to Open Societies
Part 1: Barbarians at the Gates: ‘Sinful’ Cities
Actions: The Return of Urban Guerillas
Reactions: The New (Para-) Military Urbanism
Consequences: The Urban Space as a (Limited) Battlespace. Part 2: ‘Our Silicon Will Win’: The Role of Technology in Urban Counter-Terrorism
Identification: Biometrics, or a Real-Time 'Who is Who'
Prediction and Postdiction: Real-Time Data Mining and Data Analytics
Detection: Scanning and 'Sniffing' Technologies
Surveillance and Observation: The All-Seeing Eye of Big Brother
Protection: Defensible Spaces
Threat Displacement Instead of Threat Eradication: Come Concluding Caveats
Part 3: Brave New Cities: The Law of Unintended Consequences
The Quest for Silver Bullets: Implications for our Construction of Citizenship
Archipelagos of Fear: CT Technology and the Securitization of Everyday Life
Undemocratic Means: The Rise of the Surveillance State
Democracy Transfigured: The Dawn of the 'Umpire State'
Outlook: The Need for 'Critical' Critical Infrastructure Studies.