The city as a battlespace: from Gaza to Rio de Janeiro
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2017.105565Keywords:
Militarization. Urban War. Vertical Geopolitics. Political Volume. Urbicide.Abstract
This study sees the city not only as the primary venue of the capitalism, but as a stage of future wars, as it is observed that the city has been taken and thought as a battlespace in contemporary wars. We are considering that the city has been used by insurgent groups such as terrorists, insurgents and drug traffickers, who hide and use the physical infrastructure of the city in fighting regular armies as a way to reduce military power disparities. Because of this, his life in the city has been affected by conflicts in urban terrain, that aim to not only destroy the enemy, but to destroy its survival space, denying the city. This destruction of the urban space as part of a war strategy, is first analyzed in Gaza, and then to question the extent to which this occurs in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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