1st Edition

Urban Recovery Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction

Edited By Howayda Al-Harithy Copyright 2022
442 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

442 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

442 Pages 122 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book calls for re-conceptualising urban recovery by exploring the intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts in the Global South. It explores the spatial, social, artistic, and political conditions that promote urban recovery. Reconstruction and displacement have often been studied independently as two different processes of physical recovery and human migration... Read more

1. Re-Conceptualizing Urban Recovery in the Age of Protracted Displacement

Howayda Al-Harithy

Part 1: Understanding Systems and Scales of Governance

2. Global Compacts or Containment? Geopolitics by Design

Jennifer Hyndman

3. Refugees, Resettlement, and the Territorial Correlates of Resilience

Diane E. Davis

4. Spatial Patterns, Gray Spacing, and Planning Policy Implications: The Urbanization of Forced Population Displacement in Lebanon

Mona Harb, Mona Fawaz, and Carla Al-Hage

5. Governing Displaced Cities: Calibrating Reconstruction Amidst Instability

Loren Landau

6. City Development Frame as a Tool for Urban Recovery in Azaz (Syria)

Ghiath Al Jebawi

Part 2: Housing the Displaced

7. Understanding Protracted Displacement Through the Dwelling: The Temporal Injustice of the Not Quite, Not Yet Solutions to Refugee Crises

Cathrine Brun

8. Learning to be a City: Emerging Practices for Housing the Displaced in Bar Elias (Lebanon)

Joana Dabaj, Camillo Boano, and Howayda Al-Harithy

9. The Urban Recovery of Baghdad’s Neighborhoods in the Aftermath of ‘Al-Taifiyah’ Sectarian Conflict

Namariq Al-Rawi

Part 3: Conceiving of Cultural Heritage in the Recovery Process

10. From Recovery to Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Post-Crisis Recovery of Urban Cultural Heritage

Rohit Jigyasu

11. The [Framing] of Heritage in the Post-War Reconstruction of Beirut Central District (Lebanon)

Howayda Al-Harithy and Dina Mneimneh

12. The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Soviet-Era Spa Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia

Suzanne Harris-Brandts and David Sichinava

13. Creative Institutionalism: Statecraft Beyond the State in Palestine

Chiara de Cesari

14. Souls of Homes: Heritage as a Manifestation of Community Relationships Through Space and Time

Eva Ziedan

Part 4: Space and Imaginaries in Framing Post-crisis Recovery(s)

15. Transient City – Steadfast Camp: Re/Construction of Ancient Rome and Present Dheisheh

Elena Isayev

16. Urban Recovery at the Mall: Displacement and Solace in Beirut’s Spaces of Consumption

Judith Naeff

17. Confiscated Imaginaries: Notes on a Work in Progress

Omar Mismar

Biography

Howayda Al-Harithy is a Professor of architecture at the department of architecture and design at the American University of Beirut and Research Director at the Beirut Urban Lab. She is editor of Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction: Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War, published by Routledge in 2010.