Boundaries and Restricted Places

Edited by Balkiz Yapicioglu, American University of Cyprus and Konstantinos Lalenis, Professor of Urban Planning and Governance, Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, Greece

‘In Boundaries and Restricted Places, Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis present a sometimes disquieting, sometimes inspiring collection of case studies on immured spaces. From the Old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław, gated communities in Brazil, or the forbidden part of Piraeus, the journey continues to borders in Ireland or Beirut, Nicosia or Indian slums. Scholars of border studies, geography, or spatial planning and architecture will cherish this rich contribution to a better understanding of enclosure and exclusion.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to Boundaries and Restricted Places: TheImmured Space 1Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos LalenisPART I DIVIDED SPACES2 The immured against the divided: the case of the walledcity Nicosia 12Balkiz Yapicioglu and Kenan Güven.3 Navigating through invisible barriers: the evolution ofimmured Beirut 23Christine Mady4 How a long-lasting political crisis and political ambitionscreate damage to society – the case of the Vistula Spit area 37Anna Brzezińska-Rawa5 Borders in Ireland 2021: from immured places tointegration to divergence? 49Brendan Williams6 Divided architectures: hidden infrastructures of separationand cohesion 64David Coyles and Clare MulhollandPART II SEGREGATED SPACES7 The ‘gate’ in Pomakochoria, Greece: memories ofunderdevelopment? 80Konstantinos Lalenis8 The present in the future: segregation and boundaries inthe urban science fiction film 96Marko Kiessel and Jonathan Stubbs9 Unpacking immured spaces from statutory property rightsin Australian strata and Indian slum land rights 111Rebecca Leshinsky, Pranab R. Choudhury and Serene Ho10 Investigating how abandoned and derelict cultural heritagecan evolve into informal public space 126Aliye Menteş and Cem Yardımcı11 Poetic prostitution or female bondage? Troumpa quarter inPiraeus and Tabakika in the city of Larissa 140Konstantinos Moraitis and Maria MarkatouPART III PROTECTED SPACES12 The gated communities and their socio-spatialconfigurations in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Brazil 154Eliana do Pilar Rocha and Carlos Smaniotto Costa13 The Leviathan of the South: awakening the public-use ofgreen areas in private condominiums? Emerging practicesin São Paulo, Brazil 168Safira De La Sala and Everaldo Augusto Cambler14 Immured spaces: narratives of policy instruments. Coastalspaces along the southern part of the Caspian Sea in thenorth of Iran 184Maedeh Hedayatifard15 Opening up of gated communities: a reality of a mirage? 198Yung YauPART IV SPACES BEYOND16 Boundaries in the city between the living and the dead 211Yannis Polymenidis17 Hidden space 224Rena Karanouh18 Spaces beyond borders: art on and within the walls of theimmured neighbourhood of Surlariçi in Nicosia 239Alev Adil19 Nobody’s or everybody’s place? The Old Jewish Cemeteryin Wroclaw – the story of destruction and protection 250Magdalena Belof20 Opening the barrier of military immured spaces in Italy: istheir regeneration going beyond the threshold of boundaries? 263Federico CamerinPART V CONNECTING THE DIVERSITY OF THEIMMURED SPACE21 Conclusion: connecting the diversity of the immured space 278Konstantinos Lalenis and Balkiz YapiciogluIndex