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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300030503321

Autore

Ristic Mirjana

Titolo

Architecture, Urban Space and War : The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo / / by Mirjana Ristic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-76771-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 260 p. 29 illus., 27 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict, , 2634-6419

Disciplina

363.69

Soggetti

Cultural heritage

Ethnology—Europe

Sociology, Urban

Cities and towns—History

Urban planning

City planning

Cultural Heritage

European Culture

Urban Studies/Sociology

Urban History

Urbanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Warscapes: Introduction -- 2. Cities, Nationalism and Conflict -- 3. Topography of Terror: Sniping and Shelling of Urban Space -- 4. Landscape of Ruins: Targeting Architecture -- 5. Resistance -- 6. Rebordering Sarajevo -- 7. Specter of War -- 8. Painful Memories and Parallel Histories -- 9. Lessons from Sarajevo.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates architectural and urban dimensions of the ethnic-nationalist conflict in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the siege of 1992–1995. Focusing on the wartime destruction of a portion of the cityscape in central Sarajevo and its post-war reconstruction, re-inscription and memorialization, the book reveals how such spatial transformations become complicit in



the struggle for reconfiguration of the city’s territory, boundaries and place identity. Drawing on original research, the study highlights the capacities of architecture and urban space to mediate terror, violence and resistance, and to deal with heritage of the war and act a catalyst for ethnic segregation or reconciliation. Based on a multi-disciplinary methodological approach grounded in architectural and urban theory, the spatial turn in critical social theory and assemblage thinking, as well as techniques of spatial analysis, in particular morphological mapping, the book provides an innovative spatial framework for analyzing the political role of contemporary cities.