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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.
List of contents
1. Re-Conceptualizing Urban Recovery in the Age of Protracted Displacement Part 1: Understanding Systems and Scales of Governance 2. Global Compacts or Containment? Geopolitics by Design 3. Refugees, Resettlement, and the Territorial Correlates of Resilience 4. Spatial Patterns, Gray Spacing, and Planning Policy Implications: The Urbanization of Forced Population Displacement in Lebanon 5. Governing Displaced Cities: Calibrating Reconstruction Amidst Instability 6. City Development Frame as a Tool for Urban Recovery in Azaz (Syria) 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 8. Learning to be a City: Emerging Practices for Housing the Displaced in Bar Elias (Lebanon) 9. The Urban Recovery of Baghdad’s Neighborhoods in the Aftermath of ‘Al-Taifiyah’ Sectarian Conflict 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 11. The [Framing] of Heritage in the Post-War Reconstruction of Beirut Central District (Lebanon) 12. The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Soviet-Era Spa Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia 13. Creative Institutionalism: Statecraft Beyond the State in Palestine 14. Souls of Homes: Heritage as a Manifestation of Community Relationships Through Space and Time Part 4: Space and Imaginaries in Framing Post-crisis Recovery(s) 15. Transient City – Steadfast Camp: Re/Construction of Ancient Rome and Present Dheisheh 16. Urban Recovery at the Mall: Displacement and Solace in Beirut’s Spaces of Consumption 17. Confiscated Imaginaries: Notes on a Work in Progress
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
