(Ebook) Open Gaza: Architecture and Hope by Michael Sorkin, Deen Sharp ISBN 9781649030719, 1649030711

(Ebook) Open Gaza: Architecture and Hope by Michael Sorkin, Deen Sharp ISBN 9781649030719, 1649030711

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture & design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 sq miles, 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege, enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation & despair. Gaza, however, is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude, resistance, & imagination... Inspired by Gaza’s inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists, & scholars from Palestine & Israel, the US, the UK, India, & elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans & Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within & beyond the logics of siege & warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, & outside the idiocy of violence & warfare.Salem Al Qudwa, Harvard Div School & Harvard Kennedy SchoolHadeel Assali, ColumbiaTareq Baconi, International Crisis Group, BrusselsTeddy Cruz, UCAL-San DiegoFonna Forman, UCAL-San DiegoM. Christine Boyer, Princeton, PrincetonAlberto Foyo, architect, New YorkNasser Golzari, Westminster UniversityYara Sharif, Westminster UniversityDenise Hoffman Brandt, City College of N.Y.Romi Khosla, architect, New DelhiCraig Konyk, Kean University, Union, NJRafi Segal, MIT, BostonChris Mackey, Payette Architects, BostonVyjayanthi V. Rao, Terreform, NYSara Roy, Harvard University, CambridgeMahdi Sabbagh, architect, NYMeghan McAllister, architect, SF Bay AreaDeen Sharp, London School of EconomicsMalkit Shoshan, HarvardPietro Stefanini, University of EdinburghMichael Sorkin (1948–2020), CUNYHelga Tawil-Souri, New York UniversityOmar Yousef, Al-Quds University, JerusalemFadi Shayya, University of Manchester