Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World

This book examines the debate over affordable housing and all of its complexities to critique and confront important features of rebuilding, affordability, design methodologies, and challenges in the strategic rebuilding processes.

To tackle the paucity of adequate housing in the Muslim World, Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World brings together a cohort of essays that deal with the the latest approaches, policy discussions, attendant research methodologies and recommendations. The volume’s multidisciplinary contributors— academics, practitioners, architects, planners, researchers, urbanists, economists—offer valuable insights and critical analysis on strategic rebuilding of affordable and adequate housing, as well as the continuous improvement of living conditions. Each chapter broadens our understanding of the ‘house’ as a source of stability and security for individuals or families because one’s house is the center of emotional life, with its ability to provide serenity, safety, and self-worth. Therefore, weaving the many aspects of this argument together the contributors of this volume purport a point of view that is carefully well-thought-out to expand the focus from just addressing individual and family needs to looking at the wider community benefits. Furthermore, adequate housing will increasingly become the focus of re-settlement, urban renewal and re-investment, primarily to deal with the homeless conditions that already exist—the influx of refugees and internally displaced people (IDP’s) as the result of natural disasters (earthquakes and floods) and the collateral damage caused by war.