# Topocide

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{{Short description|Human destruction of the landscape}}
{{Main|Outline of genocide studies}}

'''Topocide''' is the deliberate alteration or destruction of a [locale](/source/location) through industrial expansion and change, so that its original [landscape](/source/landscape) and character are destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Swanson|first=Kelly|title=AP Human Geography 2009|year=2009|publisher=Kaplan|page=153}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/158102 Topocide.] The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, update 24 Jan 2017 (Retrieved Nov 2024)</ref>

A related term is [domicide](/source/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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Porteous|first=Douglas|title=Domicide: The Global Destruction Of Home|year=2001|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mOwb3IXYfoEC&q=topocide&pg=PA12|author2=Sandra E. Smith |isbn=9780773569614}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Domicide](/source/Domicide)

==References==
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==Further reading==
* [Bibliography of genocide studies](/source/Bibliography_of_genocide_studies)

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