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Defeating terrorism through design: Think souks, not office buildings

  • Written by Thomas Fisher, Professor of Architecture, Director of the Metropolitan Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, University of Minnesota
imageEmbodiment of defiance... or foolhardy design?Paul Silva, CC BY

To fight terrorist networks, we need to understand them and learn from them. Obviously that doesn’t mean training to become terrorists ourselves. But we can learn from the way many terrorist organizations operate – via highly networked, decentralized connections. This kind...

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