My book Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction is now available in paperback.
It can be ordered from the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415573566/. At the moment it costs £23.50/$39.95 and they are offering free delivery for orders over £20/$35.
Click on the book cover on the right to see contents and read an extract
Urbicide is the first book length discussion of the deliberate destruction of cities. I examine the ‘killing of cities’ in cases such as the 1992-95 Bosnian war, the Russian Chechen Campaigns, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. I outline a theoretical understanding of what is achieved in such destruction.
Today sees the opening of an exhibition based on the ESRC-funded research project The urban environment: Mirror and mediator of radicalisation? The exhibition has an excellent website outlining the various strands in the research project: 
Anniversaries of urban destruction: Berlin & Mostar
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Yesterday marked two important anniversaries for the destruction of urban fabric. On the one hand there were prominent commemoration ceremonies to mark the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 9th November 1989 was the date on which border security was eased and freedom of movement across the wall was allowed. 9th November thus marks the date on which the wall’s dividing power – ostensibly the purpose that gave the structure meaning – ended. It is thus the anniversary of a symbolic destruction. (more…)
Tags: Berlin Wall, Bosnia, Mostar, urban destruction, urbicide
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