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Topocide
Name(s):
Destruction of a sense of place
Destruction of meaningful sites
Nature
Topocide is the deliberate alteration or destruction of a locale through industrial expansion and change, so that its original landscape and character are destroyed. Topocide can be the result of deliberate industrial expansion, as when industries form, then the people's center of life revolves around that industry. New jobs are formed and the environmental and cultural landscape is forever changed.
A related term is domicide (from Latin domus, meaning home or abode, and caedo, meaning deliberate killing) the destruction of home; the two may be viewed as synonyms or they may be opposed, with topocide referring to destruction from the point of view of the perpetrator(s) and domicide from the perspective of those affected.
Source: Wikipedia
Claim
Technocrats tend to initiate process resulting in the destruction of a sense of place and of meaningful relationships to place. Their desacralized, rational view of the world reduces places to mere commodities; their planning procedures often take too little or not count of the importance of developing a sense of place. Municipal zoning laws are exclusionary, restricting people's choices in house design, numbers of occupants and the location of family businesses.
Narrower
Logging of old stand forests
This problem is a member of 3 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Unmeaningful relationships to place [in 3 loops]
Aggravated by
Technocracy
Landscape disfigurement
Mis-oriented facilities
Threatened monuments and historic sites
Unrelated buildings in urban environments
Strategy(ies)
Conserving built heritage
Conserving landscape diversity
Destroying sense of place
Preserving sense of place
Value(s)
Common sense
Destructiveness
Nonsense
Unmeaningful
Reference(s)
Porteous, J D: Planned to Death: the annihilation of a place called Howdendyke
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
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