DEFINING SPATIAL VIOLENCE. BUCHAREST AS A STUDY CASE

Abstract

The paper looks at the spatial manifestations of violence, aiming to define the category of spatial violence by focusing on the recent urban history of Bucharest; it establishes links with the longer history of natural and inflicted disasters that defined the city, and it explores the spatial, urban, social and symbolical conflicts that occured during the last 25 years, pointing at their consequences on the social and urban substance of the city.

Keywords

• Urban conflict
• spatial destruction
• disaster
• gentrification
• violence
• Bucharest