ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book discusses the recent debate over the built legacy of the former colonial city of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The issue of the colonial legacy reminds us that Johan Lagae is not only talking about the conservation of physical remnants of the past but also about negotiating meanings embedded in these artifacts. Safa Abu-Rabia looks at how forcible spatial change has structured the Bedouin identity and how their attachment to their original lands serves as the basis of construction of their displaced identity, building feelings of conscious and physical alienation from the new space, which becomes an arena of resistance and protest. Reconstructing memory and a sense of community through the concrete environment is illustrated by Efrat Eizenberg who offers an example of residents reconstructing elements of their past landscape in the community gardens of New York.
