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Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

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Description for Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Paperback. Urban planning and conservation experts provide a thorough comparative examination of Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia-five urban areas physically partitioned in the throes of ethnic conflict. Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 44 illus. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFSG; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal patchwork of ethnic enclaves. In Mostar, the Croatian and Bosniak communities have occupied two autonomous sectors since 1993. These cities were not destined for partition by their social or political histories. They were partitioned by politicians, citizens, and engineers according to ... Read more

Divided Cities explores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines—when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. Planning and conservation experts Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth offer a warning beacon to a growing class of cities torn apart by ethnic rivals. Field-based investigations in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia are coupled with scholarly research to illuminate the history of urban dividing lines, the social impacts of physical partition, and the assorted professional responses to "self-imposed apartheid." Through interviews with people on both sides of a divide—residents, politicians, taxi drivers, built-environment professionals, cultural critics, and journalists—they compare the evolution of each urban partition along with its social impacts. The patterns that emerge support an assertion that division is a gradual, predictable, and avoidable occurrence that ultimately impedes intercommunal cooperation. With the voices of divided-city residents, updated partition maps, and previously unpublished photographs, Divided Cities illuminates the enormous costs of physical segregation.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
The City in the Twenty-First Century
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221954
SKU
V9780812221954
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About Jon Calame
Jon Calame is a founding partner of Minerva Partners, a preservation and planning firm in New York. Esther Charlesworth is founding director of Architects Without Frontiers (Australia) and Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Reviews for Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
"An interesting interjection into a growing debate about violence in contemporary cities. . . . The book provides food for thought for both scholars of international politics and practitioners of urban planning at a time when violence in and against the city is rising up the agenda for both."—Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Goodreads reviews for Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia


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