Architecture and the Right to Heal

Esra Akcan is Professor of Architecture at Cornell University and author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House, also published by Duke University Press, Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87, and Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Enforced Disappearance: Urban Squares, Cemeteries, Memorials 40 2. Partition: Camps, Model Villages, Retrofits 76 3. Collapse: Slums, Real Estate, Cultural Buildings 138 4. Climate Disaster: Master Plans, Plantations, Campuses 194 5. Extinction: Gardens, Parks, Ruderal Urban Spaces 277 Notes 323 Bibliography 389 ?Index

"Animated by a compelling ethos, Architecture and the Right to Heal challenges the limits of architectural discourse and extends cutting-edge debates in the global field of memory studies on restoration, transitional justice, and potential healing. It stands in a long tradition of critical enlightened thought and breaks new ground at the intersection of architecture, memory studies, human rights, and urban studies." - Andreas Huyssen, author of Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South "By connecting architecture to regimes of power and domination as well as forms of resistance and repair, Esra Akcan's work provides a much-needed catalyst to stimulate greater dialogue about the consequences and ethics of architecture amongst practitioners, theorists, scholars, artists, and activists." - Mabel O. Wilson, author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums