This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of Latin America, Europe and the United States, to initiate a comparative debate of the different dynamics in which
Urbicidio expresses itself. The field or focal point of analysis that this publication approaches is the city, but under a new critical perspective of inverse methodology to that has been traditional used. It is about understanding the structural causes of self-destruction to finally thinking better and then going from pessimism to optimism.
It is a deep look at the city from an unconventional entrance, because it is about knowing and analyzing what the city loses by the action deployed by own urbanites, both in the field of its production and in the field of its consumption. This suppose that the city does not have an ascending linear sequential evolution in its development but neither in each of its parts in the improvement process, showing the face that commonly not seen but others live.
The category used for this purpose is that of Urbicidio or the death of the city, which contributes theoretically and methodologically to the knowledge of the city, as well as to the design of urban policies that neutralize it. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the book has an inclusive view of the authors. For this reason, gender parity, territorial representation and the presence of age groups have been sought.
Fernando Carrión Mena graduated from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. He is Academic at Flacso Ecuador. Its focuses of study are the topics of housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and the sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1,000 journalistic articles and 306 academic ones, published 76 books (editor of 52 and author of 24) and published 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career, he won 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinguished citizenship distinctions. He was the director of the CIUDAD Research Center, FLACSO, Municipal Urban Planning, as well as a consultant to the Municipality of Quito. He is considered one of the 50 most influential Ibero-American intellectuals.
Paulina Cepeda graduated from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. She is Academic of FLASO-Ecuador. She is Architect by profession and completed Master of Research in Urban Studies with a research grant. She is Senior Architect, developing heritage housing restoration and rehabilitation projects, design and construction of new projects and urban consultancies to municipalities. Within the academic field, her lines of research are housing policies, urban planning, governance, market and land policies, with several articles and books on the matter. Coordinator of the Urbs.tic interurban Alliance dedicated to the development of critical thinking in the region, which brings together four universities: UNAM Mexico, FLACSO Ecuador, UNC from Argentina and UFRJ from Brazil. Founder of the Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) that brings together universities in southern Europe, Latin America and Africa and founder of POLIS.TIC, a local urban network.
費爾南多·卡里翁·梅納畢業於拉丁美洲社會科學學院。他是厄瓜多爾FLACSO的學術人員。他的研究重點包括住房、城市化過程、城市、歷史中心、文化遺產、暴力、安全和毒品走私、邊境、分權和足球社會學等主題。他創辦了8本主題雜誌（政治學、安全、城市、歷史中心、邊境），撰寫了1000多篇新聞文章和306篇學術文章，出版了76本書籍（52本為編輯，24本為作者），並出版了12本書系列（共97卷）。他製作了4部紀錄片。他曾擔任多邊組織的顧問和大學教授。他的職業生涯獲得了9個獎項、6個勳章和5個傑出公民榮譽。他曾擔任CIUDAD研究中心、FLACSO、市政城市規劃的主任，並擔任基多市政府的顧問。他被認為是50位最具影響力的伊比利亞美洲知識分子之一。
保利娜·塞佩達畢業於拉丁美洲社會科學學院。她是厄瓜多爾FLACSO的學術人員。她是一位建築師，並獲得城市研究碩士學位的研究獎學金。她是高級建築師，從事文化遺產住房修復和重建項目、新項目的設計和建設以及對市政府的城市諮詢工作。在學術領域，她的研究方向包括住房政策、城市規劃、治理、市場和土地政策，並有多篇文章和書籍相關。她是Urbs.tic跨城市聯盟的協調人，該聯盟匯集了墨西哥的UNAM、厄瓜多爾的FLACSO、阿根廷的UNC和巴西的UFRJ四所大學。她是聯合南歐、拉丁美洲和非洲大學的城市研究洲際聯盟（AIEU）的創始人，也是當地城市網絡POLIS.TIC的創始人。
