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This was supposed to be in the paper this week, but it turned into a web exclusive. Hey, that meant I got to write longer!

Where Once Were Playgrounds
Rebuilding Balkan cities after the wars
By Suzi Steffen

Stari Most, the Mostar Bridge, in August 2006. Photo from Wiki Commons.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, two of the most damaged cities of the 1990s wars aren’t healing thanks to continuing tensions — and design mistakes.

So argued UC-Irvine professor Scott Bollens in the third week of the second year of the UO Department of Architecture’s Savage lectures on war and peace. Bollens spoke to around 120 students, faculty, community members and interested architects on Tuesday, Jan. 22.

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