"Terreform" -- title page. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- Normalizijng 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.
Summary:
"The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered envrionments 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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