Open Gaza : architectures of hope The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered envrionments on earth. Crammed into a space of 139 square miles (360 square kilometers) 1.8 million people live under an Israeli siege enforcing conditions that continue to plummet to ever more unimaginable depths of degradation and despair. Gaza however is more than an endless encyclopedia of depressing statistics. It is also a place of fortitude resistance and imagination; a context in which inhabitants go to remarkable lengths to create the ordinary conditions of the everyday and to reject their exceptional status. Inspired by Gazas inhabitants this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists planners activists and scholars from Palestine and Israel the US the UK India and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare