The city as a unit is the expression of a sum greater than its parts: homes, centers of community and culture, roads to work and school, infrastructure and architecture, and the people living there; it is both political and politicized. The city is politicized in the act(s) of construction, destruction, and reconstruction, and political in its relevance to the state and, increasingly, to the international. The destruction of the city by modern warfare produces and perpetrates multiple forms o...
