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Open Gaza : Architectures of Hope by Sara Roy (2021, Hardcover)

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PublisherAmerican University in Cairo Press

ISBN-101649030711

ISBN-139781649030719

eBay Product ID (ePID)16050375907

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Book TitleOpen Gaza : Architectures of Hope

Number of Pages348 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicHistory / Contemporary (1945-), Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Criticism

GenrePolitical Science, Architecture

AuthorSara Roy

Book SeriesMiddle East Urban Studies

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight0.1 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Preface byRoy, Sara

LCCN2020-028150

Reviews"Rather than rehearse the statistics and calamities that have marked the abundant coastal enclave for social death, Open Gaza provocatively shows how Gaza continues to be a source of life in its ingenuity, love, and possibilities. Simultaneously, it makes clear that current conditions in Gaza are not inevitable but have been constructed, reproduced, and justified by lawmakers indentured by a political present. From a journey through a network of tunnels, an alternative digital grid, agriculture zones, transportation routes that rehabilitate a fragmented Arab world, this collection of essays is a powerful retort to the tired discourse that has framed Gaza's future as a security question contingent upon demilitarization and containment. Open Gaza is an exciting invitation into new futures that Gaza and Palestine, more generally, offer for Palestinians and the world." -- Noura Erakat, author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine "Twenty years ago, I was part of a group of architects, historians, and activists asked to think about Jerusalemas a single, undivided city. Led by Michael Sorkin, we toured the area and formed a community of practicestill operating today in opposition to Israel's occupation. The results were collated in The Next Jerusalem , and some of its contributors reappear in this volume. In Open Gaza , they are joined by a new generation ofpractitioners and scholars, who continue this most vital investigation and struggle against the continued Gaza'scontinued imprisonment. Their work -- both critical and visionary -- forms a seed that might one day sprout andbloom when this cruelly dominated and repressed place is free to find its own future." -- Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture " Open Gaza provides an essential contribution to the study of modern Palestine and the greater Mediterranean Basin. The collection succeeds in providing a balance between works that highlight the dismal, wanton destruction of Palestinian lives and those that are underpinned fundamentally by an optimistic, constructive vision of the future. At its heart is a commitment to transforming shared urban spaces into something that materially reflects the boundlessness of Palestinian spirits. The imaginative collection addresses many of the practical questions posed by urban planning. Yet most usefully, these essays cast Gaza as a constituent urban space, interactive with the sites and cities around it. This frame permits the reader to imagine a future that breaks from our present-day reality of 'containers,' siege, borders and tunnels." -- Ahmed Moor, CEO of Liwwa, Inc.

Table Of ContentCONTENTS PREFACE Sara Roy INTRODUCTION Terreform GAZA'S SKIN Tareq Baconi ARCHITECTURE OF THE EVERYDAY Salem Al Qudwa RING CITY: A METROPOLIS --NOT AN ENCLAVE Terreform FOUR TUNNELS Bint al-Sirhid THE QATAN CENTER FOR CHILDREN Omar Yousef TIMELESS GAZA Mahdi Sabbagh and Meghan McAllister ABSURD-CITY, SUBVERT-CITY Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari 120 PLANNING RUINATION M. Christine Boyer RE-ECOLOGIZING GAZA Fadi Shayya and Visualizing Palestine THE INTERNET PIGEON NETWORK Helga Tawil-Souri COLLECTIVE EQUIPMENT Royal College of Art, ADS7 FRONTIER URBANIZATION Francesco Sebregondi NORMALIZING THE SIEGE: THE GAZA RECONSTRUCTION MECHANISM (GRM) Pietro Stefanini CITY OF CRYSTAL Craig Konyk NATURAL GAZA Romi Khosla ZOO, OR THE LETTER Z, JUST AFTER ZIONISM Malkit Shoshan SOLAR DOME Chris Mackey and Rafi Segal SOCIAL HYDROLOGY: A DESIGN RESISTANCE Denise Hoffman Brandt REDRAWING GAZA Alberto Foyo and Postopia INTERDEPENDENCE AS A POLITICAL TOOL Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman HYPERPRESENT ABSENCE: SUGGESTED METHODS Hadeel Assali TIMELINE Terreform CONTRIBUTORS

SynopsisCutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments 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. Contributors Affiliations Salem Al Qudwa , Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA Hadeel Assali , Columbia University, USA Tareq Baconi , International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium Teddy Cruz , University of California-San Diego, USA Fonna Forman , University of California-San Diego, USA M. Christine Boyer , Princeton University, Princeton, USA Alberto Foyo , architect, New York, USA Nasser Golzari , Westminster University, London, UK Yara Sharif , Westminster University, London, UK Denise Hoffman Brandt , City College of New York, USA Romi Khosla , architect, New Delhi, India Craig Konyk , Kean University, Union, NJ, USA Rafi Segal , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA Chris Mackey , Payette Architects, Boston, USA Vyjayanthi V. Rao , Terreform, New York, USA Sara Roy , Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Mahdi Sabbagh , architect, New York, USA Meghan McAllister , architect, San Francisco Bay Area, USA Deen Sharp , London School of Economics, UK Malkit Shoshan , Harvard University, Cambridge, USA Pietro Stefanini , University of Edinburgh, Scotland Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) , City University of New York, USA Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University, USA Omar Yousef , Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Fadi Shayya , The University of Manchester, UK

LC Classification NumberNA1478.G39O64 2020

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