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City and Soul in Divided Societies: Planning, History and Environment Series

Autor Scott A. Bollens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2011
In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities ߝ Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on seventeen years of research and over 240 interviews with political leaders, planners, architects, community representatives, and academics, he blends personal reflections, reportage from a wealth of original interviews, and the presentation of hard data in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of these urban environments of damage, trauma, healing, and repair.
City and Soul in Divided Societies reveals what it is like living and working in these cities, going inside the head of the researcher. This approach extends the reader’s understanding of these places and connects more intimately with the lived urban experience. Bollens observes that a city disabled by nationalistic strife looks like a callous landscape of securitized space, divisions and wounds, frozen in time and in place. Yet, the soul in these cities perseveres.
Written for general readers and academic specialists alike, City and Soul in Divided Societies integrates facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in original ways in order to illuminate the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415779234
ISBN-10: 0415779235
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 50 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Planning, History and Environment Series


Cuprins

Part A: Polarized Cities  1. Introduction  2. Scholarship with an ‘I’ 3. Soul in the City: Epic Cultures and Urban Fault-lines  Part B: Nine Cities, Nine Sorrows  4. Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina ‘Urbicide’ and Dayton  5. Johannesburg, South Africa: ‘Swimming Olympic Style after Years of Drowning’  6. Belfast, Northern Ireland: A ‘Peace’ Not Envisioned  7. Nicosia, Cyprus:urmounting Walls, not Politics  8. Basque Country, Spain: Moving from Etxea to Euskal Hiria  9. Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina: The City as War Spoils  10. Barcelona, Spain: An Inclusive Nationalism?  11. Jerusalem, Israel and West Bank: Narrowing the Grounds for Peace  12. Beirut, Lebanon: City in an Indeterminate State, Part I  13. Beirut, Lebanon:City in an Indeterminate State, Part II  Part C: Synthesis 14. Comparing Across Conflicts  15. Cities and National Peace

Recenzii

"City and Soul in Divided Cities offers a telling perspective about how people divided by race, religion, ethnicity, class, and history manage to coexist and in some circumstances even to thrive. Bollens achieves this through a deft combination of carefully crafted and thoughtful analysis, insight, and guidance, interspersed liberally with the words of residents and champions of these cities and presented with images, figures, and set-aside boxes of imaginative prose." ߝ Journal of the American Planning Association

"City and Soul in Divided Societies offers a telling perspective about how people divided by race, religion, ethnicity, class, and history manage to coexist and in some circumstances even to thrive. Bollens achieves this through a deft combination of carefully crafted and thoughtful analysis, insight, and guidance, interspersed liberally with the words of residents and champions of these cities and presented with images, figures, and set-aside boxes of imaginative prose." - Journal of the American Planning Association "One of the strengths of this book is its ability to capture nuanced contextual factors within brief capsules, mixing discussion of local views, major events, governmental structures, and urban policies. This provides the reader with a swift but flavored overview of the past of each city under investigation... Other strengths of the book are its reader-friendly format and the personal voice of the author. For those who haven't had the opportunity to read Bollens's earlier work, City and Soul in Divided Societies will give a thought-provoking snapshot of the main storyline he has developed, which concerns features that distinguish polarized cities." - Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review

Notă biografică

Scott A. Bollens is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Coooperation. He is author of Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization (2007), On Narrow Ground (2000), and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies (1999).