Sentence:  {1} In contrast to Martin Shaw, he stresses that <WSD>urbicidal</WSD> acts were a distinct feature of that war. / {2} In contrast to Shaw, therefore, Coward argues that <WSD>urbicidal</WSD> warfare deserves stronger consideration in legal definitions of war crimes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation.