urbicidal

Adjective

urbicidal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.
   • Hence the ‘urbicidal’ aspect of the war, destruction of the cities as places of mixing and of centuries-old civilisation, places of openness and of tolerance, destruction of bridges as witnesses of historical exchange and physical bonds between groups presently at war and which the warring élites...1998, Nickie Charles, Helen M. Hintjens, Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN
   • The urbicidal acts included the attempted “murder” of the city virtually and symbolically; its physical destruction by random bombing, shelling, grenading, and the like; its strangling through denial of food, water, and energy; its terrorizing through sniper fire from surrounding hills and bombing...2002, Joan Ockman of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Out of Ground Zero: Case Studies in Urban Reinvention, page 141
2. Inimical to the vitality of a city.
   • The urbicidal effect of the staggering local property tax rates is aggravated by the large amount of property that, for one reason or another, is tax exempt…1967: Urban America (Organization), City — volumes 3–4, page 17 (Urban America)
   • The method of this urbicidal ignorance is described step by step.1981, Lawrence Wodehouse, Ada Louise Huxtable, an Annotated Bibliography, Garland Pub., →ISBN, page 67, →ISBN