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Urban Planning in North Africa
There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. It examines the transnational flow of planning ideas during the colonial period, namely through the French, British, and Italian colonial presence, and the Portuguese and Spanish influences as well, and discusses key challenges currently confronting urban planning in the major urban centers in the region. The fifteen chapters that constitute the book offer an informed analysis of the history of urban planning in North Africa, covering the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods.
Monuments Decolonized
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely. Today, in both Algeria and France, people are moving and removing, vandalizing and preserving this contested, yet shared monumental heritage. Susan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both countries and interviews with French and Algerian heritage actors and artists, she...
Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662)
Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662) is a fundamental new contribution to the history of Tangier, a dynamically expanding Moroccan port on the south shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. The book offers a “virtual archaeology” of the Portuguese urban fabric heritage--both vanished and preserved--in Tangier's médina, the walled Old Town. Solidly grounded in archival sources and profoundly revisionist, Portuguese Tangier alters our image of the médina to an unexpected extent. Yet it makes no claim to being "definitive" in any sense -- on the contrary, it is no more than a starting point. The volume stands at a critical intersection of well-known documents, recently located sources, and those that ...
DEcolonial Heritage
The volume attempts to triangulate three vibrant discourses of our times: It combines postcolonial and decolonial readings of cultural conflicts with assessments of ecological dimensions of those conflicts, as well as their significance within discourses on natural and cultural world heritage. The examples from four continents range from the medieval Middle East - already shaken by a convergence of ecological and social disaster - to modern imaginary constructions of medieval Vikings, the persistence of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic, literary poetics of patrimony, and the heritage politics of Mediterranean urban architecture. Authors ask which strategies societies in developing countrie...
Heritage Regimes and the State
What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.
Urbanistica e architettura moderne alla prova della contemporaneità
Nel secolo scorso le città coloniali e di fondazione furono luoghi di sperimentazione della modernità architettonica e urbanistica occidentali, ambiti in cui differenti culture trovarono un non sempre felice momento di sintesi. Molti protagonisti dell’architettura e dell’urbanistica dell’epoca, infatti, si impegnarono nel progetto architettonico e nella pianificazione di luoghi spesso estranei alle loro tradizioni culturali, ma soprattutto lontani da quelle eterogenee idee di modernità che stavano maturando nel Vecchio continente. Oggi appare sempre più necessario gettare lo sguardo sui modi con cui quei progetti sono stati nel tempo interpretati e trasformati e sono tuttora percepiti e utilizzati. Questo da un lato come utile bilancio di una stagione progettuale, dall’altro per immaginarne un possibile futuro.
Dynamiques de la pauvreté en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen -Orient
La pauvreté ne fait pas les gros titres, ni dans les médias ni dans la littérature spécialisée. La région du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord serait affectée par des problèmes autrement plus graves : au premier plan la "montée de l'islamisme" et la persistance de conflits régionaux meurtriers. Pourtant la pauvreté y gagne partout du terrain. Les contributions à cet ouvrage définissent la pauvreté en termes plus dynamiques que comptables et catégoriels, plus relatifs qu'absolus.
