Scott A. Bollens is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine, where he holds the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Coooperation. He is author of Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization (2007), On Narrow Ground (2000), and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies (1999).
Part A: Polarized Cities 1. Introduction 2. Scholarship with an 'I' 3. Soul in the City: Epic Cultures and Urban Fault-lines Part B: Nine Cities
Nine Sorrows 4. Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina 'Urbicide' and Dayton 5. Johannesburg
South Africa: 'Swimming Olympic Style after Years of Drowning' 6. Belfast
Northern Ireland: A 'Peace' Not Envisioned 7. Nicosia
Cyprus:urmounting Walls
not Politics 8. Basque Country
Spain: Moving from Etxea to Euskal Hiria 9. Mostar
Bosnia-Herzegovina: The City as War Spoils 10. Barcelona
Spain: An Inclusive Nationalism? 11. Jerusalem
Israel and West Bank: Narrowing the Grounds for Peace 12. Beirut
Lebanon: City in an Indeterminate State
Part I 13. Beirut
Lebanon:City in an Indeterminate State
Part II Part C: Synthesis 14. Comparing Across Conflicts 15. Cities and National Peace