My Dear Evelin;
I would be grateful if you could kindly post the following announcement in the Website. I believe it is an extremely important book for our WAED project and the Humiliation Studies Group in general. Please find the announcement below. I seize this opportunity to introduce to Professor Nicholas Wilkinson at Eastern Mediterranean University, School of Architecture, and the Chief Editor of Open House International and the owner of Urban International Press, the publisher of this book.
With warm wishes
Ashraf

AT WAR WITH THE CITY
edited by Paola Somma

This collection of essays, which is neither an instant book nor a catalogue of disasters, investigates the relationships between war and city. It aims at going beyond the case study logic and strives to improve our ability to look at and interpret future scenarios.
War as a means to accelerate the introduction of a market economy, the relaxation of landuse planning rules and the intentional exacerbation of hostility between groups of different ethnic and /or religious composition are all interwoven with eachother. In addition we get the increasing ghettoization of the post war urban landscape and the incorporation of war into the planning discourse. These are problems whose relevance goes beyond the cities examined in this volume.
Attention is also paid to the challenge and ambiguity of reconstruction. Designs, which follow the principles of sustainability, are being drawn up for war torn cities and their buildings and infrastructures sited in areas razed by war are conveniently referred to as “re-construction plans”.

PAOLA SOMMA
Introduction

PETER GOTSCH
Saigon South: Parallel City in the South. On the production and typology of neo-liberal urbanism

KELLY SHANNON
Back to the future. Vinh, Hue and Cantho, Vietnam

DIJANA ALIC
Ascribing significance to sites of memory. The Sarajevo’s Town Hall

ESTHER CHARLESWORTH
Beirut. City as hearth? Questioning the metaphor

SRDJAN JOVANOVIC WEISS
War on Turbo Architecture

LISA BORNSTEIN
City fragments and displaced plans in war-torn Mozambique

FRANÇOIS L’ECUYER
Commodification of life and community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa

MAGED ABU RAHMA AND FERNANDO MURILLO
Strategic urban planning in Gaza Strip. When the roads are blocked

FERNANDO MURÝLLO AND EUDES KAYUMBA
Refugee dwelling project in Nyamirambo, Kigali, Rwanda. Utopia or reintegration?

TIGRAN HASIC
The reconstruction business: economic agendas and regional strategy in post-conflict
Bosnia and Herzegovina

AJMAL MAIWANDI AND ANTHONY FONTENOT
Waiting for Kabul

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