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October 27, 2001 Richard Hanley This brief piece is not meant to be a detailed outline of research projects necessary to convert urban infrastructures of movement into arteries of security. Rather it is a recognition of the new primacy of security and a call for a discussion of how that will change the direction of research on urban civil infrastructures of movement. To talk about civil infrastructures is to talk about cities. To talk about cities in the United States is to talk about their level of participation in the economic/social/political phenomenon called globalization. To talk about globalization is to talk about movement—the movement of people, goods, and information (the last encompassing finance, media, and entertainment—all reduced to packets of information moved electronically). Until September 11, it seemed obvious that US cities wishing to be successful had to compete in the global movement of people, goods, and information. To do that, infrastructures were needed that could make that movement happen quickly and efficiently.  hanley.pdf
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