TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlesworth, Esther 
AU  - Calame, Jon 
TI  - Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
SN  - 9780812221954
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - City life
KW  - Ethnic studies
KW  - Urban communities
KW  - Urban planning
KW  - Urban violence
KW  - Urban warfare
KW  - Violence in society
N1  - Divided Cities explores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines—when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. Planning and conservation experts Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth offer a warning beacon to a growing class of cities torn apart by ethnic rivals. Field-based investigations in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia are coupled with scholarly research to illuminate the history of urban dividing lines, the social impacts of physical partition, and the assorted professional responses to "self-imposed apartheid." Through interviews with people on both sides of a divide—residents, politicians, taxi drivers, built-environment professionals, cultural critics, and journalists—they compare the evolution of each urban partition along with its social impacts. The patterns that emerge support an assertion that division is a gradual, predictable, and avoidable occurrence that ultimately impedes intercommunal cooperation. With the voices of divided-city residents, updated partition maps, and previously unpublished photographs, Divided Cities illuminates the enormous costs of physical segregation
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