nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211006-134144-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211006s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211006-134144-0 doi eng 342 23 Aust, Helmut Philipp Author aut Urban Legacies of 9/11: An International Law Perspective Aust, Helmut Philipp Verfassungsblog 2021-10-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier From the perspective of an international lawyer, the urban dimension of the attacks of 9/11 is conspicuously absent from most of the debates. Yet, there is a hidden story underneath the bigger geopolitical picture and its international legal implications that most of the contributions to this symposium discuss. The 9/11 attacks went for urban symbols that were at the same time global symbols; in the wave of terrorism that followed cities both in the Global North and Global South were the target – physically, politically and culturally. Security is increasingly understood as an urban issue. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 9/11 Public International Law Urban Citizenship Nijman, Janne Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/os1-urban-legacies/ raw object