The proposed research will be a theory-based analysis of land-use in the UK as defined by recent developments in technology, mobility and communication. It will analyse the production of temporary vectors of militarised space within urban and rural landscapes and their effect on the wider fabric of society. The research will address issues of land expropriation, disposal procedure, changes in modes of production, and notions of immaterial and co-existing boundaries.

Research Aims and Objectives:

• To define the nature of a certain production of militarised space and how it differs from more commonly recognised modes of spatial production, and to ask in what sense can particular space in the United Kingdom be described as militarised.
• The research will address how militarised space affects the development of the landscape, the environment, and the communities that live and work with them.
• It will propose that militarised modes of spatial production not only have far reaching implications for the spaces in which the armed forces operate and create but actually pioneer new kinds of space whilst manipulating the landscape in new and unseen ways.

An interdisciplinary approach will be adopted to analyse the interrelation of architecture, geography, history, and technology in three possible case study sites (such as domestic army bases, training zones or research centres). Field trips to the elected sites will be conducted, oral histories and interviews will be taken, and declassified government documents will be used.

The research programme's original contribution to the development of spatial theory will be to assess how the production of militarised space has developed in the United Kingdom with the creation of new technologies in relation to new developments in national security.