# Building for Hope

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- Book: [Building for Hope](https://www.bookquiver.com/marwa-al-sabouni/building-for-hope) ([Building for Hope.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/marwa-al-sabouni/building-for-hope.md))
- Authors: [Marwa Al-Sabouni](https://www.bookquiver.com/marwa-al-sabouni)
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0034-372-2
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2021-03-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Following her dramatic memoir, The Battle for Home, Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni brings us Building for Hope, in which she explores how cities and buildings might be rebuilt in the aftermath of conflict, crisis or financial depression. This is a rich journey, drawing together several narratives including personal observations of some of the world’s most fascinating cities, from Detroit to Helsinki, from Bristol to Amsterdam; the lessons that Western societies might learn from Islamic culture; and philosophical reflections, drawing on a range of thinkers, on how our personal and communal spaces can provide the basic foundations for happiness. Through this rich tapestry of personal experience, unblinking perspective, and unsettling insight, al-Sabouni offers the reader real-world solutions – and hope – for how the conditions for enduring peace might be created in an increasingly polarizing world.