In 2013, I left a small cafe in Bologna, Italy, and decided to take a long walk around the ancient city. In March 2021, the American University in Cairo Press and Terreform published Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, edited by the noted American urban scholar Michael Sorkin and the British urban geographer Deen Sharp. Indeed, while I was reading Open Gaza in May 2021, Israel Defense Forces were bombing the city for the third time in a little under a decade. At the end of the conflict, the dead on one side (the Gaza Strip) numbered 256; and those on the other (Israel), numbered 13. Gaza has been forced to rely on these high-efficiency solutions for political reasons.