Open Gaza Architectures of Hope.
Sorkin, Michael.
Open Gaza Architectures of Hope. - La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (350 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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 / Normalizijng 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 / Tareq Baconi -- Salem Al Qudwa -- Terreform -- Bint al-Sirhid -- Omar Yousef -- Mahdi Sabbagh and Meghan McAllister -- Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari -- M. Christine Boyer -- Fadi Shayya and Visualizing Palestine -- Helga Tawil-Souri -- Royal College of Art, ADS7 -- Francesco Sebregondi -- Pietro Stefanini -- Craig Konyk -- Romi Khosla -- Malkit Shoshan -- Chris Mackey and Rafi Segal -- Denise Hoffman Brandt -- Alberto Foyo and Postopia -- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Hadeel Assali.
"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"--
9781649030733
Architecture--Gaza Strip.
City planning--Gaza Strip.
Electronic Books.
NA1478 / .O646 2020 NA1478
Open Gaza Architectures of Hope. - La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (350 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 / Normalizijng 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 / Tareq Baconi -- Salem Al Qudwa -- Terreform -- Bint al-Sirhid -- Omar Yousef -- Mahdi Sabbagh and Meghan McAllister -- Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari -- M. Christine Boyer -- Fadi Shayya and Visualizing Palestine -- Helga Tawil-Souri -- Royal College of Art, ADS7 -- Francesco Sebregondi -- Pietro Stefanini -- Craig Konyk -- Romi Khosla -- Malkit Shoshan -- Chris Mackey and Rafi Segal -- Denise Hoffman Brandt -- Alberto Foyo and Postopia -- Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman -- Hadeel Assali.
"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"--
9781649030733
Architecture--Gaza Strip.
City planning--Gaza Strip.
Electronic Books.
NA1478 / .O646 2020 NA1478