Syria’s Contrasting Neighbourhoods: Gentrification and Informal Settlements Juxtaposed
Balsam Ahmad and Yannick Sudermann | | ISBN: 978-0-9559687-8-5 $14.95 |
2012/61 pages
St Andrews Papers on Contemporary Syria Distributed for the University of St Andrews Centre for Syrian Studies |
DESCRIPTION
Syria's neoliberal public policies have encouraged stark inequalities between the privileged centers and deprived peripheries of its cities. The authors of Syria's Contrasting Neighbourhoods compare and contrast the settlements around Syria's largest city, Aleppo, with the newly developed chic neighborhoods in the old city of Damascus.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Balsam Ahmad is research associate at the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University. Yannick Sudermann is conducting research at the University of Edinburgh.
CONTENTS
- Foreword: Urban Divergence Under Neoliberalism—Raymond Hinnebusch.
- Neighbourhood and Health Inequalities in Formal and Informal Neighbourhoods in Aleppo—B. Ahmad.
- Contested Heritage? Gentrification and Authoritarian Resilience in Damascus—Y. Sudermann.
