ABSTRACT
On the eve of the new millennium, however, something unforeseen occurred. Novel societal threats erupted, challenging the assumptions of minimalist government and neoliberalism. Hyper-security became a new vernacular in the face of social precarities and a worldwide web of wicked problems, such as unrelieved global warming, rip-tides of economic calamity, dysfunction among nation states as viable ruling units, and a torrent of international terrorism – what Robb (2007) called the ‘brave new war’. Heightened government resolve to tighten security bore a resemblance to the quiet revolution. But something more profound was occurring. The new federalisation of land use planning in America had a decidedly military cast.
