Urbicide

Part 1: Introduction.- Introduction. Urbicidio: An unprecedented methodological entry in urban studies?- Part 2: Urbicidio. The death of the city.- Urbicide. The liturgical murder of the city.- Death by theory and the power of ideas: From theories of cities to "Smart" Cities.- Urbicide: Towards a conceptualization.- Urban order and disorder. Genealogy of urbicide.- Imaginaries and archetypes on the death of the city.- Covid 19 and the city: Reframing our Understanding of Urbicide by Learning from the Pandemic.- Part 3: Aniquilation: The end of the public space.- The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic.- The transformation of urban and digital spaces from a democratic perspective.- Streets, avenues and highways.- The post-automobile city. From deterritorialization to the proximity city: The case of Madrid.- Mobility as an expression of the Urbicide: The risks of transport modernization in Latin American metropolises.- Part 4: Deterioration of the building environment.- The urbanization of risk.- Urbicide or suicide? Shaping environmental risk in an urban growth context: The example of Quito city (Ecuador).- Between greens and grays: Urbanization and territorial destruction in the Sabana de Bogotá.- Overregulation, corruption and Urbicide.- Obsolescence of the building environment.- Part 5: Dissolution of social interaction.- The (un)made city: Spatial fragmentation, social inequalities and (de)compositions of urban life.- The city and the abandonment of public space. Between neoliberal urbanism and citizen urbanism.- A "New" urban colonialism? North-South migration and racially structured gentrification in Latin America.- Urban frontiers in the fracturing city: Heritage, tourism and immigration.- The production of emptied places in the borderlands of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires.- Part 6: Degradation and abandonment.- Reconstructing cultural paradigms. Experiences in East Europe: The historical memoryof the historical centers in Lithuania.- Lose the memory, lose the history, lose the city.- Revolt and destruction. The public and monument landscape in Latin American cities.- Trends of urban and territorial reconfiguration in metropolitan Buenos Aires.- Anatomy of an Urbicide. Social housing in Santiago 1980-2006.- Urbicide. A look through the mirror.- Part 7: Destruction of common life: Violence.- The besieged city: Geographies of crime.- Urbicide, violence and destruction against cities by criminal organizations.- Discursive understandings of the city and the persistence of gender inequality.- Border cities between life and death: Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.- Part 8: Contraction of public management: Privatization.- The metamorphosis of infrastructure in Latin American urbanization: From insufficiency to presence as fictitious capital.- Public policies (or their absence) as part of urban destruction.- Metropolitanicide? Urbs, polis and civitas revisited.- International tourism, urban rehabilitation and the destruction of informal income-earning opportunities.- De-urbanization: From the shock to the revolution of a new urban logic.- Part 9: Urbicide: Cities cases.- Grassroots spaces make London exciting: The relationship between the civitas and the urbs.- Rio de Janeiro: The trajectory of the wonderful city, violence, and urban disenchantment.- The implosion of memory. City and drug trafficking in Medellín and the Aburrá Valley.- Caracas. Urbicide and precariousness of urban life at the beginning of the Venezuelan 21st century. The worst of capitalism and savage populism.- Santiago, the non-city? Destruction, creation, and precariousness of verticalized space.- Neoliberal urbicide in Barcelona. The case of Ciutat Vella.- Part 10: Epilogue.- Epilogue. Remake us from Ruins, collective memories and dreams.- Epilogue. The power of urban destruction.