Urbicidio: Sobre la violencia contemporánea contra las ciudades

Abstract

This is one of the most relevant contemporary problems of political violence: urbicide, a concept that indicates the destruction of cities. "Urbicidal violence" affects the population and the conditions of possibility of inhabiting it when it is exercised, through the use of weapons and arguments of political, cultural and economic legitimacy with geostrategic objectives. It is proposed that urbicide has the capacity to harm what is characteristic of the city: the intimate spatial relationship of city bodies (humans and buildings) in which the heterogeneous, the diversity of the multiple and the plural building are exhibited, aspects constitutive of the great space of meeting and common memory that are the cities.