Calame, Jon.
Divided cities : Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia / Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009.
xi, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
The city in the twenty-first century
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 limited information, short-range plans, and often dubious motives ... 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. -- Back cover.
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0812241347 (alk. paper)
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City and town life.
Urban violence.
Urban warfare.
Persecution.
Population transfers.
Vie urbaine.
Violence urbaine.
Guerre urbaine.
Persécutions.
Lebensbedingungen
Bewaffneter Konflikt
Minderheitenfrage
Stadt
Teilung
Städer.
Stadsplanering.
Beirut (Lebanon) History.
Belfast (Northern Ireland) History.
Jerusalem History.
Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) History.
Nicosia (Cyprus) History.
Jérusalem Histoire.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Mostar
Cyprus Nicosia
Lebanon Beirut
Middle East Jerusalem
Northern Ireland Belfast
Jerusalem
Beirut
Belfast
Mostar
Nicosia
Nikosia
Jerusalem (Israel) History.
History
Charlesworth, Esther Ruth.
City in the twenty-first century book series.
Location: Library main 279902
Call No.: BIB 216201
Status: Available
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