This book analyzes the role of integrated spatial planning in constructing eco-sustainable urban housing in post-conflict scenarios and investigates two different spaces in an emergency: Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan and Damascus city in Syria. The book presents a new innovative tool that assists in building a successful and sustainable reconstruction after emergencies which corresponds to the planning approach's heterogeneous nature within emergency situations. The same innovative theoretical framework also covers the ramifications of climate change on the urban built environment and reduces its sociological impact on the stricken communities.
This book is intended for researchers, academics, students, spatial planners, policy makers, think tank groups, and public entities who are interested in post-disaster reconstruction and the issues of refugee camps.
Author(s): Hind Al-Shoubaki
Series: Cities, Heritage and Transformation
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 134
City: Cham
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The Temporary City
1.1 The Temporary City Hypothesis
1.2 The Relationship Between the Camp and Neighborhood
1.3 Jordan and Zaatari Camp
1.4 Syria and Damascus City
1.5 How Cities Absorb and Deal with the Sudden Population Influx and the Need for Urban Housing?
1.5.1 The C.A.S.E Project in L’Aquila—The Abruzzo Region—Italy
1.5.2 An Adequate Urban Housing for Refugees in the Thessaloniki-Greece
1.5.3 The Refugee Camps as an Alternative—Jordan
1.6 The Structure of the Book
1.7 Conclusion
References
2 The Urbicide
2.1 The Concept of Urbicide
2.2 Direct Urbicide in Syrian Cities
2.3 Indirect Urbicide, “Conflict-Induced Displacement and the Right to the City”
2.4 Post-conflict Urban Reconstruction and Redefining a Place to Live In
2.5 Urban Emergency Management and Developing an Integrated Approach to Planning
2.5.1 The Methodology Process of an Integrated Planning
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 Spaces in Emergency
3.1 Direct Urbicide: Damascus City in Syria
3.1.1 The Urban Development of Damascus
3.1.2 From a Strong Classical Geometric Pattern to a Compact Organic Urban Form: Greco-Roman Damascus and Islamic Damascus Urban Matrix
3.1.3 Reviving the Geometric Master Plan Layout: The Ottoman Damascus and Damascus Under the French Mandate
3.1.4 Informal Settlements in Damascus
3.2 Damascus Urban Scenario in Wartime
3.3 The Syrian Approach in Construction: An Eye Over the Organization Laws in Syria
3.3.1 The Law 10
3.3.2 The Law No. 33
3.3.3 Law 9
3.4 Assessing the Damage, Especially in the Housing Sector in an Aim to Determine the Real Need for City
3.5 The Indirect Urbicide: Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan
3.5.1 Jordan Urban Scenario: High Level of Urbanization with Poor Planning Strategies
3.5.2 Zaatari Refugee Camp
3.5.3 The Population Growth in Zaatari Refugee Camp
3.5.4 The Zaatari Camp, Urban Housing, and Spatial Planning: The Abrupt Space for Emergency
3.6 Conclusion
References
4 Urban Emergency Integrated Planning UEIP
4.1 The Spatial Sphere
4.2 Diagnostic Sphere
4.3 Construction Laws and the Technical Standards Sphere
4.4 UEIP: Urban Emergency Integrated Planning
4.5 Conclusion
References
5 Concluding Discussions
5.1 UEIP and FUTURE Directions
5.2 Conclusion
References
Index
