City Analysis

Idlib: Decentralized Governance

The governorate that Assad punished hardest became the governorate that ended him. What it built in the interval is the governance story of Syria’s…

May 14 • Hani Al Jundi

Hama: Syria's Sustainability & Self-Sufficiency Capital

The only Syrian governorate with no foreign border is, counterintuitively, the one best positioned to build Syria's first self-sufficient circular…

Apr 28 • Hani Al Jundi

The Node Connecting Syria: Homs

The node at the centre of Syria’s reconstruction corridors was the first city destroyed and the last to see capital return.

Apr 12 • Hani Al Jundi

Damascus: The Capital Reconstructs

There is a useful way to think about Damascus, and it is different from the way you should think about Aleppo, which was the subject of the first…

Apr 2 • Hani Al Jundi

The Reconstruction Dividend: Aleppo

This is the first in a series examining the reconstruction potential of Syria’s cities, one at a time, through the same analytical lens.

Mar 22 • Hani Al Jundi

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