THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENVIRONMENT: BUILDING HOUSES ALONG THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY IN JORDAN

B. L. Guarasci

DOI:10.1017/S0020743818000776

Corpus ID: 165531386

THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENVIRONMENT: BUILDING HOUSES ALONG THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY IN JORDAN

@article{Guarasci2018THEAO,
  title={THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENVIRONMENT: BUILDING HOUSES ALONG THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY IN JORDAN},
  author={B. L. Guarasci},
  journal={International Journal of Middle East Studies},
  year={2018},
  volume={50},
  pages={513-536}
}

B. L. Guarasci

Published 2018

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International Journal of Middle East Studies

This article analyzes the restoration of Jordan's UN Dana Biosphere Reserve cottages for ecotourism and home building in the neighboring village of Qadisiyya as competing land projects. Whereas a multimillion-dollar endowment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) restores Dana's houses as a “heritage” village for a tourist economy, families in Qadisiyya build houses with income from provisional labor to shore up a familial future. Each act of home building… CONTINUE READING

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