Uncovering Vulnerabilities and Resilience of Benghazi After the War

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 165 - 171, 31.12.2019

Abdelhamed Barani Zerrin Ezgi Kahraman

https://doi.org/10.32569/resilience.586657

Abstract

that they not only stimulate vulnerabilities of
cities but also decrease their resilience. The civil war in the city of
Benghazi stared in 2011. This study aims to investigate both the multifaceted
vulnerabilities of Benghazi resulted from war and some signs of resilience
reactions against consequences of war. It attempts to compare before and after
the war situations for various structures in the city including demographic,
economic, social, spatial and environmental dimensions. To do this, it analyses
written and visual documents such as master plans, satellite images and
national/international reports. The study finds outs that the inhabitants of
the city have economically developed resiliency strategies by creating new jobs.
Moreover, the residents of Benghazi construct permeant or temporary houses at
the outskirts of the city as a spatial resiliency reaction. However, this
reaction results in urban sprawl in the city which consequently stir up the pressures
on natural environmental in the city.(Ballentine & Nitzschke, 2005; Brzoska &
Fröhlich, 2016)Wars result in the
destruction of cities in many ways

Keywords

civil war; vulnerability; resilience; Benghazi.

Savaş Altındaki Kentin Kırılganlıkları ve Dirençlilik Stratejileri: Bengazi Kentinde Bir Vaka Çalışması

Abstract

Wars result in the
destruction of cities in many ways (Ballentine & Nitzschke, 2005; Brzoska &
Fröhlich, 2016) that they not only stimulate vulnerabilities of
cities but also decrease their resilience. The civil war in the city of
Benghazi stared in 2011. This study aims to investigate both the multifaceted
vulnerabilities of Benghazi resulted from war and some signs of resilience
reactions against consequences of war. It attempts to compare before and after
the war situations for various structures in the city including demographic,
economic, social, spatial and environmental dimensions. To do this, it analyses
written and visual documents such as master plans, satellite images and
national/international reports. The study finds outs that the inhabitants of
the city have economically developed resiliency strategies by creating new jobs.
Moreover, the residents of Benghazi construct permeant or temporary houses at
the outskirts of the city as a spatial resiliency reaction. However, this
reaction results in urban sprawl in the city which consequently stir up the pressures
on natural environmental in the city.

Keywords

iç savaş; savunma; esneklik; Bingazi.

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