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Urbicide : the politics of urban destruction / Martin Coward.
Author
Coward, Martin, 1973-
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Format
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Language
English
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1st ed.
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Description
xiv, 161 pages ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT241 .C68 2009
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban violence
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Series
Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 66.
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Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 66
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Summary note
Developing the concept of urbicide - the deliberate destruction of cities - Martin Coward outlines a theoretical understanding of the urban condition at stake in such violence. He argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The destruction of shared space
1. Interpreting destruction of the built environment
2. The logic of urbicide
3. The built environment and shared spatiality
4. The nature of heterogeneity: From Mitsein to the inoperative community
5. The political stakes of urbicide
6. The conceptual stakes of urbicide.
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ISBN
9780415461313 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
0415461316 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
9780203890639 ((ebook))
0203890639 ((ebook))
9780415573566
0415573564
LCCN
2008012781
OCLC
179814569
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