Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post-)Conflict Historic Core

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post-)Conflict Historic Core

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Tracing Walkability Through Disruption Assemblages in Aleppo’s (Post-)Conflict Historic Core

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60402 - Architectural design

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Urban Planning

ISSN

2183-7635

e-ISSN

2183-7635

Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

June

Stát vydavatele periodika

PT - Portugalská republika

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

1-23

Kód UT WoS článku

001529687400005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105011193965