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Book SynopsisThis innovative book defines the concept of immured spaces across time, space and culture and investigates various categories of restricted places such as divided, segregated and protected spaces.
Drawing on examples from across the world, this book analyses not only what separates and divides space, but also the wide variety of impacts that the imposition of new barriers and boundaries or the opening of existing ones has on places, people and surrounding areas. Contributors integrate case studies with theoretical analysis to draw conclusions and advance an analytical framework of immured spaces. The chapters present a point of reference to highlight areas of significance and also to encourage further detailed work in this important area.
The book has a strong research dimension and will therefore be of interest to academic communities in planning, cultural heritage, psychology, architecture and urban studies. In addition, the use of case studies to develop a common framework will appeal to practitioners and policy makers.
Trade Review‘In Boundaries and Restricted Places
, Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis present a sometimes disquieting, sometimes inspiring collection of case studies on immured spaces. From the Old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław, gated communities in Brazil, or the forbidden part of Piraeus, the journey continues to borders in Ireland or Beirut, Nicosia or Indian slums. Scholars of border studies, geography, or spatial planning and architecture will cherish this rich contribution to a better understanding of enclosure and exclusion.’ -- Ben Davy, Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
‘Sometimes a testament to nationalism, racism, exclusivity, insecurity, or xenophobia, immured spaces and their material representations – walls, borders, gates, and boundaries – have always been an attribute of the urban. This collection of essays expands our notion of immured spaces and pushes us to rethink them through its rich account of material and immaterial, real and perceived spaces for the living and for the dead from different cities around the globe.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of California, Los Angeles, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Boundaries and Restricted Places: The Immured Space 1 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis PART I DIVIDED SPACES 2 The immured against the divided: the case of the walled city Nicosia 12 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Kenan Güven. 3 Navigating through invisible barriers: the evolution of immured Beirut 23 Christine Mady 4 How a long-lasting political crisis and political ambitions create damage to society – the case of the Vistula Spit area 37 Anna Brzezińska-Rawa 5 Borders in Ireland 2021: from immured places to integration to divergence? 49 Brendan Williams 6 Divided architectures: hidden infrastructures of separation and cohesion 64 David Coyles and Clare Mulholland PART II SEGREGATED SPACES 7 The ‘gate’ in Pomakochoria, Greece: memories of underdevelopment? 80 Konstantinos Lalenis 8 The present in the future: segregation and boundaries in the urban science fiction film 96 Marko Kiessel and Jonathan Stubbs 9 Unpacking immured spaces from statutory property rights in Australian strata and Indian slum land rights 111 Rebecca Leshinsky, Pranab R. Choudhury and Serene Ho 10 Investigating how abandoned and derelict cultural heritage can evolve into informal public space 126 Aliye Menteş and Cem Yardımcı 11 Poetic prostitution or female bondage? Troumpa quarter in Piraeus and Tabakika in the city of Larissa 140 Konstantinos Moraitis and Maria Markatou PART III PROTECTED SPACES 12 The gated communities and their socio-spatial configurations in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Brazil 154 Eliana do Pilar Rocha and Carlos Smaniotto Costa 13 The Leviathan of the South: awakening the public-use of green areas in private condominiums? Emerging practices in São Paulo, Brazil 168 Safira De La Sala and Everaldo Augusto Cambler 14 Immured spaces: narratives of policy instruments. Coastal spaces along the southern part of the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran 184 Maedeh Hedayatifard 15 Opening up of gated communities: a reality of a mirage? 198 Yung Yau PART IV SPACES BEYOND 16 Boundaries in the city between the living and the dead 211 Yannis Polymenidis 17 Hidden space 224 Rena Karanouh 18 Spaces beyond borders: art on and within the walls of the immured neighbourhood of Surlariçi in Nicosia 239 Alev Adil 19 Nobody’s or everybody’s place? The Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw – the story of destruction and protection 250 Magdalena Belof 20 Opening the barrier of military immured spaces in Italy: is their regeneration going beyond the threshold of boundaries? 263 Federico Camerin PART V CONNECTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE IMMURED SPACE 21 Conclusion: connecting the diversity of the immured space 278 Konstantinos Lalenis and Balkiz Yapicioglu Index
