ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the problem and dilemmas of establishing, researching, and defining the urbicidical discourse. It considers urbicide as a type of political violence and mode of urban planning. Then, it also concerns urbicide literature and the event of warfare. The chapter aims to link the concepts of urbicide, urbanity and identity. It elaborates the urbicide definition that is seen as the deliberate destruction of shared spaces/places, social networks, and political resistance to efface place identity that at the end generates placelessness. The chapter builds upon and strengthens some conceptual aspects of the literature on urbicide by connecting this research field to discussions about the relationship between urbicide, and urbanity. It develops a tool to read, analyze, and highlights the reasons and logic behind urban destruction, based on the Palestinian condition. Seeing urbicide as a process of three stages of politics, action and effects is crucial to understand any urbicidal episode and might be applicable to any urbicidal case.
