While many are outraged at the violence committed against shops and homes throughout London and across English cities over the past three nights, it is senseless for city leaders to sow further division and resentment by dismissing young looters as "pure criminality", especially when the systemic causes have been hidden in plain sight for decades.
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... the public denunciation of violence is itself an act of political theatre, distracting leaders from bringing the events of the past three nights to a close.
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
