Displacement Urbanism
Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance
Edited by Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano
Published
Jun 1, 2025Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1529242324Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 1, 2025Page count
256 pagesISBN
978-1529242331Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
At a time of increased conflict and extreme weather events, this timely book examines the protracted and overlapping displacements of people that shape many of the world’s urban spaces. Presenting case studies from the Global North and South, researchers explore the experiences of communities in refugee camps and those that have either chosen or been driven to move across borders by conflict, economic or environmental forces.
Acknowledging the many difficulties that migrants face, the book also looks at the creative urban processes that emerge in the wake of violence and the resourceful way refugees build lives in and outside camps.
Giovanna Astolfo is Lecturer in Urban Design at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Camillo Boano is Professor of Urban Design and Critical Theory at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Introduction - Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano
1. Framing Displacement Urbanism - Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano
Part 1: Extraction
2. Displacement, Two Ways: Necroeconomic Navigations in the Peri-Urban Global Southeast - Elliott Prasse-Freeman
3. Producing Zoé: The Camp as a Form of Extraction - Sofia Moriconi
Part 2: Expulsion
4. Between Augmented Disposability and Deferred Disposal: A View from Istanbul - Francesco Pasta
5. Resettlement for Fast Progress: Planning and Design Elements in the Urbanization of the Yangtze River Delta - Paola Pellegrini and Jinliu Chen with Ying Chang
Part 3: Exhaustion
6. Beyond Shelter: Makeshift Inhabitation in Displacement, Greater Paris - Stefano Mastromarino
7. Shifting Geographies of “Presence”: (In)voluntary Displacements and Territorial Biographies from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Layla Zibar
8. Multi-scalar Displacements of Women in Chile - Yasna Contreras
Part 4: Extinction
9. Place Wounding and Displacement Urbanism in Baghdad after the 2003 US-led Invasion - Sana Murrani, Dhirgham Alobaydi and Ula Marie
10. The Imbrications of National Security Emergencies and Disaster Preparedness in Turkey - Eray Çaylı
Part 5: Endurance
11. Calais as a Zone of Care: Reimagining an Urban Migration Hub Between France and the United Kingdom - Kieran Tam and Irit Katz
12. Beyond Destitution and Deprivation: Spatialities of Survival by Refugees in Arua City, West Nile, Uganda - Peter Kasaija
13. Conclusion
