Urbanism as Warfare: Planning, Insecurity, and the Remaking of Downtown Bogotá

＂This book explores downtown Bogotâa’s waves of destruction and reconstruction since the 1940s and into the present. Through an ethnography of urban expertise and practices, it illuminates the links between city planning and regimes of violence and insecurity＂--

Federico Pérez Fernández is Associate Professor of Urban Anthropology at the University Honors College, Portland State University. His research interests include city planning and design, engineering and infrastructure, space and power, urban property and politics, and militarism and security.