Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post-)Conflict Historic Core
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.17645/up.9605" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17645/up.9605</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.9605" target="_blank" >10.17645/up.9605</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post-)Conflict Historic Core
Original language description
War disrupts the symbiotic interplay between bodies and built environments, unraveling familiar routines and destabilizing urban life. Walking becomes a precarious tiptoeing through danger and continual re-routing, a spatial practice of survival and resistance, asserting presence and agency amid violence. Consequently, urbicidal practices and persistent insecurities reconfigure walkability, undermining patterns of normality and a collective sense of safety. Yet, post-conflict reconstruction, particularly in historic cores, rarely considers former or newly formed footpaths, further misaligning future project agendas with context-specific recovery needs. This paper develops the “disruption assemblages” approach, a conceptual framework that captures the dynamic interplay of material, temporal, and human elements in conflict-ridden contexts, to examine war’s impact on walkability. Using Aleppo’s historic core as a case study, it highlights the inseparable connection between the urban fabric’s sensory-spatial characteristics and its social-temporal layering of familiarity and generational presence. Qualitative methods—including historical analysis, sensory ethnography, and walking as a research tool—reveal how Aleppo’s historic core has metamorphosed into a landscape of complex survival practices, danger-evasion tactics, and everyday resistance. These findings illuminate the contested spatio-temporality and lived experiences of reclaiming rights to and within urban space, demonstrating how walkability is deterritorialized and reterritorialized in war-torn landscapes and during sporadic (post-)conflict reconstruction. Ultimately, this paper argues for re-centering walkability in (post-)conflict healing and proposes the “attract the foot” approach, emphasizing the imperative of re-enabling walking as a sociable and human-centered recovery strategy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60402 - Architectural design
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Urban Planning
ISSN
2183-7635
e-ISSN
2183-7635
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
PT - PORTUGAL
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
1-23
UT code for WoS article
001529687400005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105011193965