@article{f9d65dd1c25c409ea892d7bb36197da9,
title = "City profile: Nicosia",
abstract = "Nicosia is a city best known as the last divided capital in the world. Indeed, since 1974, it has been partitioned by an UN-controlled buffer zone that separates the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Yet, despite this harsh division imposed by the ongoing conflict, local agents of cooperation and bridge building have challenged this partition since its onset by fostering material, functional, and sociopolitical connections on both sides of the divide. This profile presents a contemporary review of the city's current affairs through the prism of everyday urban geopolitics and depoliticization. It emphasizes the geopolitical and urban transitions since 1974 and the ongoing efforts to reconnect its fractured urban realm in five main areas: sewage system, urban planning, crossing points, energy, and civil society.",
keywords = "Divided cities, Nicosia, Political geography, Urban geopolitics",
author = "Marik Shtern and Sertac Sonan and Ourania Papasozomenou",
note = "Funding Information: H4C is a community center in Nicosia which aims to establish an intercommunal educational center in the buffer zone ( Fig. 6 ) and build bridges across the communities and serve as a catalyst for cooperation by enabling intercommunal interaction ( Tziarras, 2018 ). NGOs and individuals can use H4C's workspaces to design and implement projects. The idea was conceived in 2005 but only materialized in 2011 upon receiving funding from the European Economic Area Grants and Norway Grants ( Home for Cooperation, 2020 ). The role of civil society and the H4C's contribution is made even more vital by the fact that the elected political representatives of the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot sides are not officially permitted to work together; civil society organizations are the necessary link for uniting both sides. Yet, even such indirect cooperation is channeled through technical committees. One such example is the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage (TCCH), which was established in 2008 by leaders of both sides under the auspices of the UN with the explicit aim of protecting and promoting the cultural heritage of the island. TCCH is composed of equal numbers of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots and they often meet at H4C. Funding Information: This study is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the research Powering Divided Cities: Urban Energy Systems between Separation and Cooperation (DiviCiti). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2022",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.cities.2022.103866",
language = "English",
volume = "130",
journal = "Cities",
issn = "0264-2751",
publisher = "Elsevier Ltd.",
}