Soft Urbicide
This concept has been developed for understand the widespread of the building destruction in Bosnia during the Yugoslavia war.
Urbicide differs from collateral damage because the destruction of the urban fabric is a political goal, the building are targeted because they are fundamental elements of the urban space.
Urbicide includes the destruction of cultural heritage but it goes pass, its goal it’s more just to re-write the past by destroy all the building which represent the diversity and complexity of a city.
The destruction of the urban space has for purpose to destroy the sharing space, and so the possibility to meet the ‘others’, and to transform the city into a succession of ethnic or socio-economic enclaves.
The urbicide is link to the warfare, to a short and violent episode.
My question is does urbicide take place only during the war times?
Some planning programs or their absence can be see as an urbicide?
Can we talk about a ‘soft’ urbicide?
Urbicide differs from collateral damage because the destruction of the urban fabric is a political goal, the building are targeted because they are fundamental elements of the urban space.
Urbicide includes the destruction of cultural heritage but it goes pass, its goal it’s more just to re-write the past by destroy all the building which represent the diversity and complexity of a city.
The destruction of the urban space has for purpose to destroy the sharing space, and so the possibility to meet the ‘others’, and to transform the city into a succession of ethnic or socio-economic enclaves.
The urbicide is link to the warfare, to a short and violent episode.
My question is does urbicide take place only during the war times?
Some planning programs or their absence can be see as an urbicide?
Can we talk about a ‘soft’ urbicide?
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