An analysis of the concept of 'urbicide' -- the killing of cities -- and its various manifestations

1. Exploring Urbicide Stephen Graham Department of Geography University of Durham, UK

4. Origins of the Term: The Denial, Killing, or Murder of the City: (a) 1945 Nuclear Urbicide

5. (b) Marshall Berman: Planning as Urbicide

6. (c) 1990s Balkan Wars

9. Dugway Proving Ground, Utah: Eric Mendelson

10. Careful targeting of densest, most flammable, cities and parts of cities

19. Now Huge Urban and Technoscientific Planning Going in to Support Urban Warfare : ‘MOUT’

20. Unveiling the Orientalised City

24. e.g. Walter Christaller and Aryanization

25. Harare and Mugabe, 2005

26. Urbanism has Often Hidden Geopolitical Histories

32. Sometimes Urban Mixing and Tolerance is the Target of Ethno-Nationalist Movements

57. ‘ Joystick war’ : “at the end of the day you walk back into the rest of life in America”

58. “ Let’s start off by destroying Tokyo ! Studies show that nine out of ten mayors begin their careers with a frenzy of destruction” Sim City Guide

62. Further reading…