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Why talk about architecture when so many people are losing their lives? Sabouni contends that Syria’s built environment helped create the conditions for a popular uprising-turned-civil war. She isn’t suggesting that architecture or urban planning were the main causes of the conflict, but she makes a convincing case that they reflected the Assad regime’s corruption and increasingly sectarian agenda. How else to explain the fact that so many Sunnis were relegated to slum-like neighborhoods? In this light, Syria’s ravaged cities themselves — how they were planned and governed before the war — offer a lesson and a warning. Her hope is that better, fairer urban development, policy, and architecture can aid eventual reconciliation. Architecture, as Sabouni puts it, “offers a mirror to a community, and in that mirror we can see what is wrong and also find hints as to how to put it right.”
full: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hope-in-the-ruins-of-homs-architecture-and-the-syrian-civil-war/
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