Since April 2007, Baghdad has been experiencing a walling strategy designed by the US-led multi-national forces that were then occupying Iraq. The MNF justified their strategy of surrounding some neighbourhoods with concrete blast walls (also known as T-walls) as a way of protecting city residents from the urban violence severely affecting daily life in Baghdad. This essay marks a first attempt at decoding the themes of this new visual urban iconography by addressing the issue of political narrative through so-called urban beautification in a militarized context. WALLING STRATEGY: Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad? by Caecilia Pieri. ibraaz.org/essays/96
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:34:38 +0000
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