Title & Author:

At war with the city / edited by Paola Somma.

Publication:

Gateshead, Great Britain : Urban International Press, ©2004.

Description:

300 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Paola Somma -- Saigon South : parallel city in the south on the production and typology of neo-liberal urbanism / Peter Gotsch -- Back to the future : Vinh, Hue and Cantho, Vietnam / Kelly Shannon -- Ascribing significance to sites of memory : the Sarajevo's town hall / Dijana Alic -- Beirut, city as hearth : questioning the metaphor / Esther Charlesworth -- War on turbo architecture / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss -- City fragments and displaced plans in war-torn Mozambique / Lisa Bornstein -- Commodification of life and community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa / François L'Ecuyer -- Strategic urban planning in Gaza Strip : when the roads are blocked / Maged Abu Rahma and Fernando Murillo -- Refugee dwelling project in Nyamirambo Kigali, Rwanda : utopia or reintegration? / Fernando Murillo and Eudes Kayumba -- The reconstruction business : economic agendas and regional strategy in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Tigran Hasic -- Waiting for Kabul / Ajmal Maiwandi and Anthony Fontenot -- Next, please / Paola Somma.

ISBN:

187281106X (pbk.)
9781872811062 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
City and town life.
War and society.
Postwar reconstruction.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
Guerre et société.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.

Added entries:

Somma, Paola.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246392
Call No.: BIB 175990
Status: Available