CITIES AND DESTROYING „OTHERNESS”
CITIES AND DESTROYING „OTHERNESS”

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to show that cities are very often attacked because of their ‘otherness’. ‘The other’ may be understood here as the other religion, other ethnicity, other culture, other political views or other people. This is closely related to the idea of diversity, heterogeneity, pluralism and density as essen-tial features of contemporary cities. The author examines theories explaining motives for destroying cities, such as those treating destruction of cities as part of genocide or the theory of urbicide. Finally, the author proposes looking at the destruction of cities through the lens of destroying ‘the other’ and possibilities of a community. The research methods used include desk research and formal-legal analysis. The formal-legal analysis focuses on the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the desk research – on the relevant literature at the intersection of urban studies and international studies.

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