ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with linking the City's response to terrorism with wider conceptual ideas within the social sciences. It highlights the dangers of attempting to replicate the strategies that have developed in the City of London in other locations arguing that what developed to counter the terrorist threat in the Square Mile is geographically and historically specific. Attempts to 'design out terrorism' in the City of London since the early 1990s exhibit similarities with, as well as differences to, the fortified and fragmented model of future urbanism that many recent accounts of cities portray. The City began to establish new institutional relationships with the neighbouring boroughs, as well as Central Government, as the importance of promoting London as a world city began to permeate all aspects of London governance. The final part will draw on the analogy of territoriality to highlight the impact of risk and risk aversion in constructing a urban landscape of 'wild' and 'tame' zones.
