Urbicide The Death of the City /

This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of Latin America, Europe and the United States, to initiate a comparative debate of the different dynamics in which Urbicidio expresses itself.The field or focal point of analysis that this publication approaches is the city, b...

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Kolejni autorzy: Carrión Mena, Fernando (Redaktor), Cepeda Pico, Paulina (Redaktor)
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Wydanie:1st ed. 2023.
Seria:The Urban Book Series,
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Dostęp online:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1
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Spis treści:
  • 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.