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Reflecting on urban resilience based on analyses of al-Zaa’tari Camp for Syrian refugees in al-Mafraq, Jordan

Zaghloul, Tooma H.

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Title
Reflecting on urban resilience based on analyses of al-Zaa’tari Camp for Syrian refugees in al-Mafraq, Jordan
Author(s)
Zaghloul, Tooma H.
Issue Date
2018-07-18
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Miraftab, Faranak
Committee Member(s)
Fawaz, Mona
Department of Study
Urban & Regional Planning
Discipline
Urban Planning
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.U.P.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
  • Refugee Camp
  • Urban Resilience
  • Cityness
  • Humanitarian Aid
  • Urbanization
  • Planning Theory
  • State of Exception
  • Planning Ethics
  • Urban Theory
Abstract
Considering the unprecedented and ever-growing number of refugees in the twenty-first century and the issues related to spaces of refuge, now reaching 66 million people, and a roughly estimated seventeen years as the average length of refugees’ stay in a camp, can we still manage these populations from an emergency perspective? Shall we continue to use the city as a comparison-unit to explore these spaces? This research sheds the light on the urban practices that emerge within refugee camps. In doing so, it recognizes spaces of refuge as urban agglomerations. It also acknowledges the life-producing actions of refugees which challenge equating them as mere objects of humanitarian intervention, and the treatment of camps as spaces of “exception” and emergency. The case of al-Zaa’tari Camp for Syrian Refugees in al-Mafraq, Jordan will be used to argue for the importance of spaces of refuge in the planning thought and practice as it sets a profound example of urban resilience. The study concludes with a discussion on the planners’ expected role and intervention in the development of refugee settlements.
Graduation Semester
2018-08
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 2018 Tooma H. Zaghloul

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