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Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities: Spaces, Buildings, and Boundaries

Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities: Spaces, Buildings, and Boundaries Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities 79 Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities: Spaces, Buildings, and Boundaries Scott A. Bollens HIS paper examines and evaluates public policies and strategies used in four politically turbulent cities that Thave been characterized by nationalistic group conflict and that have been part of significant socio-political transitions. It asks two basic questions: What is the nature of the relationship between socio-political conditions and changes to urban material- ity and space? Are interventions that manipulate urban materiality and space in ethnically contentious cities capable of advancing or retarding intergroup tolerance? I first describe scholarship involving cities and technology studies, political transitions and uncertainty, and urban malleabil- ity and obduracy. The article then focuses on case studies of Barcelona and Bilbao during and after the Spanish transition from authoritarianism to democracy and then investigates Sarajevo and Mostar in Bosnia amidst a fragile post-war transition. Findings come from one year of field research, drawing primarily on more than 100 interviews with local, national, and international officials and with non-governmental, community, and opposition group activists. I examine interventions that shape the built environment in ways that symbolize and express new political goals pertaining to openness and inclusiveness and that seek http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities: Spaces, Buildings, and Boundaries

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 16 (2-3): 29 – Dec 1, 2009
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Taylor & Francis
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1466-1853
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1063-0732
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10.1080/10630730903278595
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Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities 79 Intervening in Politically Turbulent Cities: Spaces, Buildings, and Boundaries Scott A. Bollens HIS paper examines and evaluates public policies and strategies used in four politically turbulent cities that Thave been characterized by nationalistic group conflict and that have been part of significant socio-political transitions. It asks two basic questions: What is the nature of the relationship between socio-political conditions and changes to urban material- ity and space? Are interventions that manipulate urban materiality and space in ethnically contentious cities capable of advancing or retarding intergroup tolerance? I first describe scholarship involving cities and technology studies, political transitions and uncertainty, and urban malleabil- ity and obduracy. The article then focuses on case studies of Barcelona and Bilbao during and after the Spanish transition from authoritarianism to democracy and then investigates Sarajevo and Mostar in Bosnia amidst a fragile post-war transition. Findings come from one year of field research, drawing primarily on more than 100 interviews with local, national, and international officials and with non-governmental, community, and opposition group activists. I examine interventions that shape the built environment in ways that symbolize and express new political goals pertaining to openness and inclusiveness and that seek

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Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 2009

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