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"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who has lived through wars and conflict and now resides in Britain, the book focuses on three different spheres of spatial practice - the domestic, the city and the fringes - combining textual analysis and interviews with Iraqi citizens with illustrative maps, drawings and photographs to offer a rounded analysis of spatial creativity as a result of the traumatic events that have impacted the region"--