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- adjective
Pertaining to or having thenature of urbicide, that being thedeliberate “killing” of acity by therazing ofdistinctive physicalmanifestations of itsurban identity,stifling of the social activity therein, and its generaldestruction as anedifice ofcivilisation . - adjective
Inimical to thevitality of a city.
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Examples
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Whether this would mean that the original will be recycled for the new building or entirely torn down into unsalvageable detritus, these urbicidal fantasies of demolition, alteration and displacement are pretty much on par with the spatial history of the piazza.
Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales 2009
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Whether this would mean that the original will be recycled for the new building or entirely torn down into unsalvageable detritus, these urbicidal fantasies of demolition, alteration and displacement are pretty much on par with the spatial history of the piazza.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Or with merely the wave of a hand and the flick of a finger, rampaging through historic city centers, ethnic enclaves, squatter cities, and urban Edens like some zoning board urbicidal maniac?
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Or with merely the wave of a hand and the flick of a finger, rampaging through historic city centers, ethnic enclaves, squatter cities, and urban Edens like some zoning board urbicidal maniac?
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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For instance this map assessing the wholesale destruction of housing and businesses in Harare, Zimbabwe during Mugabe's urbicidal Operation Murambatsvina.
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Or like some zoning board urbicidal maniac, rampaging through historic city centers, ethnic enclaves, squatter cities, and urban Edens?
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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Or like some zoning board urbicidal maniac, rampaging through historic city centers, ethnic enclaves, squatter cities, and urban Edens?
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For instance this map assessing the wholesale destruction of housing and businesses in Harare, Zimbabwe during Mugabe's urbicidal Operation Murambatsvina.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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Urbicide: The Politics of Destruction, where he lays out the urbicidal dynamics of cities that are targets of war and asks, aside from their physicality what is truly at stake in their annihilation?
Subtopia 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word urbicidal
The politics of destruction, urbicidal dynamics of cities that are targets of war and asks, aside from their physicality.
The deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilization.
adj. inimical to the vitality of a city.
June 25, 2015