Urban Planning for Murder.: Murder Fact Event. (Synapse Book 4)

Approaching the city through its exceptional moments–investigating urbanity through alegal, unaccounted for incidents that take place in various locations of a city–does not here constitute an attempt to highlight the accidental event, as if it would emerge from a neutral backdrop of urban uniformity. It does not seek the exception by renouncing the rule, but instead organizes the exception as a function of the rule. We should not then see the neutrality of urban scenery as a symptom demonstrated by the city while its civil character supposedly becomes more and more inauthentic; neutrality is the grand construct of urbanity. This construct is here conceived as an urgency to forget a murder that finds its shape in common protocols. In this book, modern urbanity is shaped by the covering-up of murders that happen in a city. Furthermore, this strategy shows one of the most basic infrastructures shared by the modern city. The urban is operating as a technology, the sophisticated infrastructure of this dissimulation.