ABSTRACT
As States no longer need to fully administer warfare, the subtleties of the city are one way to segmentise and pacify the identified populations in the city, so the work of planning is to successfully design the city within the threatening backdrop of “architecture or revolution”. In most cases, the social and natural world is reordered due to the rapid growth and expansion of cities. As settler colonial nation-states yield their authority to the new empires of the modern age, new forms of order are required. Buildings, neighbourhoods, and the spaces that they are situated within retain their antiquated purposes of concentration and control through a functionality that is informed by imperial and colonial memory and imagination. The second part of the conceptualisation in the “Geographies of Threats”, the use of identification of threats, is explained here. Through governance, a fabricated society was/is constructed with a clear spatial reasoning in place through localised zoning. Zoning legally, socially, and eventually legislatively through local ordinances, assists a structure of (planned) exclusion, (zoned) concentration, and (“slum” clearance) removal in cities. Surplus populations in their surplus neighbourhoods cannot remain.
