Landscape Strategies for a Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Recovery

From 2012 to 2016, the Ancient City of AleppoAleppo has been the scene of a battle, which has resulted in a humanitarian and urban crisisCrisis. The conflict has also heavily altered the morphology of the urban landscapeLandscape. This damage has meant the destructionDestruction of the inherited urban culture of a site that is now deeply affected by new morphologies created by the battle. Today, in order to rebuild its traditional urban morphologyLandscape, we need to develop methodological approaches and critical tools for a soundSustainable reconstructionReconstruction of this fragile environmentLandscape, which was once a sustainableSustainable and green city. Through the analysis of the case studies of SarajevoSarajevo, BeirutBeirut and NicosiaNicosia, this chapter aims at considering design strategies based on landscapeLandscape design. They can contribute to creating new values for the recovery of the Ancient City of Aleppo by placing special emphasis on open spaces and places of cultural significance, where to transform the narrative of memoryMemory into the narrative of the local identityIdentity, also focussing on the role of these civic spaces as reconciliation places.