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Urbicide is a term which describes the deliberate wrecking or "killing" of a city, by direct or indirect means. It literally translates as "city-killing" (Latin urbs "city" + Latin occido "to kill"). The term was first coined by the science fiction author Michael Moorcock in 1963 and later used by urban planners and architects to describe 20th century practices of urban restructuring in the United States. Ada Louise Huxtable in 1968 and Marshall Berman in 1996 have written about urban restructuring (and destruction) in areas like the Bronx, and highlight the impacts of aggressive redevelopment on the urban social experience. The term has come into being in an age of rapid globalization and urbanization. Though urbanization trends in the last century have led to a focus on violence and destruction in the context of the city, the practice of urbicide is thousands of years old.[1]
Especially after the siege of Sarajevo, the term has increasingly been used to describe violence specifically directed to the destruction of an urban area. At the conclusion of the Yugoslav Wars, urbicide began to emerge as a distinct legal concept in international law. The exact constraints and definition of this term continue to be debated. because the study of urbicide intersects with a number of disciplines including international politics, anthropology, and sociology, it has been difficult for scholars and policymakers to set a finite definition which satisfies all these fields.[1]
^ abJones, Charlie Lawrence (2018-01-23). "Urbicide: the killing of a city is an attack on the human condition". City Monitor. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
Urbicide is a term which describes the deliberate wrecking or "killing" of a city, by direct or indirect means. It literally translates as "city-killing"...
Library. 1899. Retrieved 2013-09-24. Coward, Martin (30 September 2008). Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-46131-3....
Mundicide – the destruction of a planet (mundus is Latin for "world"). Urbicide – the destruction of a city or the stifling of urbanisation (urbs is Latin...
Informer Online. NATO. Retrieved 22 November 2020. Coward, Martin (2009). Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction. London: Routledge. pp. 1–7. ISBN 978-0-415-46131-3...
May 2018. 7 December 2018. Khalidi, 1997, pp. 178–180. Nurhan Abujidi, Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience Archived 29 November...
with the early Israeli program in 1948."; Docker 2012, pp. 19–20, "The urbicide of May 1948 directed against the old Crusader city of Acre involved biological...
Louise Huxtable in her December 22, 1968 article Manchester, NH: Lessons in Urbicide. "The excellence of the complex has made it an acknowledged monument of...
the course of the siege, with a maximum of 3,777 on 22 July 1993. This urbicide by shellfire extensively damaged the city's structures, both residential...
far-left communist ideology. Exurb Rural flight Shrinking city Urban decay Urbicide White flight Berry, Brian J.L. (1980). "Urbanization and Counterurbanization...
“-cide”, including ethnocide, topocide, terracide, democide, memoricide, urbicide, gendercide, gynocide, sociocide and domicide. These other -cides are elements...
with the early Israeli program in 1948."; Docker 2012, pp. 19–20, "The urbicide of May 1948 directed against the old Crusader city of Acre involved biological...
2020 at the Wayback Machine #page=26 Coward, Martin (30 September 2008). Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-46131-3....
2024-01-05. Stanley, Bruce (2017). "The City-Logic of Resistance: Subverting Urbicide in the Middle East City". Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. 12 (3):...
Dahiya doctrine that had been implemented against Gaza since 2006, as urbicide and a tool of genocide. In the context of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel...
that has been implemented against Gaza since 2006, with Levene calling it urbicide and a tool of genocide. In articles published in November in the Lancet...
with the early Israeli program in 1948."; Docker 2012, pp. 19–20, "The urbicide of May 1948 directed against the old Crusader city of Acre involved biological...
and damaging more than 240 Ukrainian heritage sites, described as a "urbicide". 90% of Mariupol was destroyed by the Russian 2022 siege. Marinka and...
mayor Bogdan Bogdanović characterised the attack on Vukovar as an act of urbicide, a deliberate assault on urbanism. By the end of July 1991, an improvised...
Nablus a sister city, 23.12 2016; Times of Israel Abujidi, Nurhan (2014). Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience. Routledge. ISBN 9781317818847...
August 2022. Clements-Hunt, Aaron (7 June 2022). "Russia's Campaign of Urbicide in Ukraine". New Lines Institute. Retrieved 12 August 2022. Wikimedia Commons...
accusing Russia of committing genocide against Ukrainians via a policy of "urbicide". Several international organizations adopted resolutions demanding investigation...
Retrieved 2022-05-22. Clements-Hunt, Aaron (2022-06-07). "Russia's Campaign of Urbicide in Ukraine". New Lines Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-12. Egan, Lauren (2022-05-30)...
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