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Open Gaza : Architectures of Hope.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.
- Series:
- Middle East Urban Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Gaza Strip.
- Architecture.
- City planning--Gaza Strip.
- City planning.
- Gaza Strip--Environmental conditions.
- Gaza Strip.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Open Gaza
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered envrionments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers), 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza, however, is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude, resistance, and imagination; a context in which inhabitants go to remarkable lengths to create the ordinary conditions of the everyday and to reject their exceptional status. Inspired by Gaza's inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists, and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the US, the UK, India, and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- OPEN GAZA: ARCHITECTURES OF HOPE
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- GAZA'S SKIN
- ARCHITECTURE OF THE EVERYDAY
- RING CITY: A METROPOLIS - NOT AN ENCLAVE
- FOUR TUNNELS
- THE QATAN CENTER FOR CHILDREN
- TIMELESS GAZA
- ABSURD-CITY, SUBVERT-CITY
- PLANNING RUINATION
- RE-ECOLOGIZING GAZA
- THE INTERNET PIGEON NETWORK
- COLLECTIVE EQUIPMENT
- FRONTIER URBANIZATION
- NORMALIZING THE SIEGE: THE GAZA RECONSTRUCTION MECHANISM (GRM)
- CITY OF CRYSTAL
- NATURAL GAZA
- ZOO, OR THE LETTER Z, JUST AFTER ZIONISM
- SOLAR DOME
- SOCIAL HYDROLOGY: A DESIGN RESISTANCE
- REDRAWING GAZA
- INTERDEPENDENCE AS A POLITICAL TOOL
- HYPERPRESENT ABSENCE: SUGGESTED METHODS
- TIMELINE
- CONTRIBUTORS.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-64903-073-8
- OCLC:
- 1241452189
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