{"product_id":"open-gaza-architectures-of-hope-9781649030719","title":"Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments 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. \u003ci\u003eOpen Gaza \u003c\/i\u003eengages 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors Affiliations \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSalem Al Qudwa\u003c\/b\u003e, Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHadeel Assali\u003c\/b\u003e, Columbia University, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTareq Baconi\u003c\/b\u003e, International Crisis Group, Brussels, Belgium \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTeddy Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California-San Diego, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFonna Forman\u003c\/b\u003e, University of California-San Diego, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eM. Christine Boyer\u003c\/b\u003e, Princeton University, Princeton, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAlberto Foyo\u003c\/b\u003e, architect, New York, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNasser Golzari\u003c\/b\u003e, Westminster University, London, UK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYara Sharif\u003c\/b\u003e, Westminster University, London, UK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDenise Hoffman Brandt\u003c\/b\u003e, City College of New York, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRomi Khosla\u003c\/b\u003e, architect, New Delhi, India \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCraig Konyk\u003c\/b\u003e, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRafi Segal\u003c\/b\u003e, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eChris Mackey\u003c\/b\u003e, Payette Architects, Boston, USA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVyjayanthi V. 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Sorkin was an architect whose practice crossed design, criticism, and pedagogy. He is the author or editor for over twenty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City \u003c\/i\u003e(Monacelli, 2002) and \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace \u003c\/i\u003e(The New Press, 2005). In 2000, he was appointed the Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York, CUNY, and in 2014 he was made an honorary member of the Architectural Association in London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeen Sharp\u003c\/b\u003e (Edited by), PhD Graduate Center, CUNY, is the co-director of Terreform, Center for Advanced Urban Research and a visiting fellow in human geography at the London School of Economics. He was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings\u003c\/i\u003e (Urban Research, 2016) and has published in a number of scholarly journals, edited books, and e-zines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara Roy \u003c\/b\u003e(Preface by) is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. She has published extensively on the Israeli -Palestinian conflict, with a focus on Gaza. She formulated the concept of \"de-development\" to explain the impact of Israeli policy on Gaza's economy. Her major work, \u003ci\u003eThe Gaza Strip: the Political Economy of De-development, \u003c\/i\u003e is now in its third edition (2016). 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