A very useful reading list on Urbicide from Ian Shaw at Understanding Empire
Understanding Empire: Technology, Power, Politics
Readings on Urbicide
Abujidi, N. (2014). Urbicide in Palestine: Spaces of Oppression and Resilience. Oxon: Routledge.
Adams, N. (1993). Architecture as the target. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 52(4): 389-390.
Berman, M. (1987). Among the ruins. new internationalist, available at https://newint.org/features/1987/12/05/among
Berman, M. (1996). Falling towers: city life after urbicide. In: Crow, D. (ed.) Geography and Identity: Exploring and Living Geopolitics of Identity. Washington: Maisonneuve, pp. 172–192.
Bevan, R. (2005). The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War. London: Reaktion Books.
Bogdanovic, B. (1993) ‘Murder of the City.’ The New York Review of Books, 40:10. Available: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/05/27/murder-of-the-city/
Campbell, D., Graham, S. and Monk, D. B. (2007). Introduction to urbicide: the killing of cities? Theory and Event 10(2), https://muse.jhu.edu/article/218080
Coward, M. (2006). Against anthropocentrism: the destruction of the built environment as a distinct form of political violence. Review of International Studies 32: 419-437
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