Urbicide : The Death of the City / edited by Fernando Carrión Mena, Paulina Cepeda Pico.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrión, Fernando, editor.

Cepeda Pico, Paulina, editor.

Series:

The Urban Book Series, 2365-7588

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Human geography.

Urban policy.

Geography.

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Urban Policy.

Regional Geography.

Local Subjects:

Urban Sociology.

Human Geography.

Urban Policy.

Regional Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (930 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

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, but under a new critical perspective of inverse methodology to that has been traditional used. It is about understanding the structural causes of self-destruction to finally thinking better and then going from pessimism to optimism. It is a deep look at the city from an unconventional entrance, because it is about knowing and analyzing what the city loses by the action deployed by own urbanites, both in the field of its production and in the field of its consumption. This suppose that the city does not have an ascending linear sequential evolution in its development but neither in each of its parts in the improvement process, showing the face that commonly not seen butothers live. The category used for this purpose is that of Urbicidio or the death of the city, which contributes theoretically and methodologically to the knowledge of the city, as well as to the design of urban policies that neutralize it. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the book has an inclusive view of the authors. For this reason, gender parity, territorial representation and the presence of age groups have been sought.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Carrión Mena, Fernando Urbicide

ISBN:

9783031253041

OCLC:

1374035572