City Reconstruction

Introduction: Contextualizing Urban Reconstruction and Policy Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Part 1.Past and Now. 2.Thinking Preservation and Reconstruction Through the Idea Of Urban Life: Reflecting on the practice of the Yalla Project in the casbah of Nablus, Palestine. 3.Creating sustainable public spaces in historic neighborhoods: Tale of Kuzguncuk Bostan of Istanbul. 4.Environmental Governance in an Unequal World. 5.War, Peace, and Reconstruction: Articulation and Synthesis of Lessons from International Experience in City Reconstruction. 6.The Millenary Cities of Mzab: A Paradigm for Contemporary Refugee Settlements in the Arab Region. Part 2.Current Issues and Realities. 7.On Ruins and Emptiness: Colonial Spatiality and Urban Politics in Palestine. 8.Beyond neoliberalism in Morocco: The new Green City of Benguerir and the UM6P Campus: a case study of culture-driven city re-construction. 9.Benghazi: Conflict, Instability, Urban Degradation and Culture as the Catalyst for Post-Conflict Recovery. 10.Reformulation of The Urban Narrative of The Public Domain Of Al Quds Jerusalem As A City Of Conflict. Part 3.Future and Re-Imagining City Reconstruction. 11.Refugee Camp Administration in Jordan and the Impact on the Development of the Hosting Cities, a Comparative Analysis. 12.Rethinking Sacred Urbanism in New Mecca Projects. 13.Aleppo Old City: An integrated Post-Conflict Built environment regeneration. 14.Re-Imaging Cities Using Skyscrapers: A global perspective with a focus on the Middle East and Dubai. 15.Innovation Policy and Urban Reconstruction: Paradigms Shifts. 16.Towards an Alternative Narrative of (Re)Construction of Contemporary Middle Eastern Cities: The Case of Gulf Cities. 17.Conclusions: Towards Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region. 18.Future Research: Charting the Course for Sustainable Urban Development in the MENA Region