City of collision : Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism / edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets ; editorial team: Zvi Efrat, Rassem Khamaisi, Rami Nasrallah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Misselwitz, Philipp, 1974-

Rieniets, Tim.

Efrat, Zvi, 1959-

Khameyseh, Rasem.

Nasrallah, Rami.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Jerusalem--History.

City planning.

Urban policy--Jerusalem--History.

Urban policy.

Architecture--Jerusalem--History.

Architecture.

Jerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Basel : Birkhauser, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict.

War has entered the cities. Since September 11, 2001 at the latest, it has become apparent that this is the case not only in Jerusalem and the Middle East, but also in Western metropolises. This book presents a thorough investigation of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral perspective: Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views. The discussion centers on the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by the conflict, including, for example, the so-called security fence, urban enclaves, exclaves, the approach to monuments and no-man's-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces. The conflict, however, does not bring with it destruction and violence alone, but also exhibits ambivalent effects and, along with them, new cultural and urban realities. Jerusalem has become a prototype in the age of new urban violence. Der Krieg hat Einzug in die Städte gehalten. Spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001 ist deutlich geworden, dass nicht mehr nur Jerusalem und der Nahen Osten betroffen sind, sondern auch westliche Metropolen. Das Buch stellt eine umfassende urbanistische Untersuchung der aktuellen Situation in Jerusalem aus trilateraler Perspektive vor: israelische, palästinensische und internationale Fachleute kommen zu Wort. Diskutiert werden Produktion und Nutzung von städtischem Raum unter den Bedingungen des Konflikts, wie z.B. der sog. Sicherheitszaun, urbane Enklaven, Exklaven, der Umgang mit Monumenten und Niemandsland oder die Instrumentalisierung von Infrastrukturen, die zu einem krassen Nebeneinander von hoch entwickelten oder verarmten städtischen Räumen führen. Der Konflikt bringt jedoch nicht nur Destruktion und Gewalt mit sich, sondern zeigt vielmehr auch ambivalente Wirkungen und mit ihnen neue kulturelle und urbane Realitäten. Jerusalem ist zu einem Prototyp im Zeitalter neuer städtischer Gewalt geworden.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Cities of Collision

Conversation

1 ENCLAVES/EXCLAVES

Principles of Frontier Geography

Spaciocide

Wall and Tower

Colonization as Suburbanization

Villages under Siege

Reflections of Spatial Presentation in Sur Bahir

2 BARRIERS/LINKS

Specters of Terror

Jerusalem: from Siege to a City's Collapse?

Barriers, Walls, and Urban Ethnocracy in Jerusalem

The Politics of Roads in Jerusalem

The H20 Factor

3 MONUMENTS/NO-MAN'S-LANDS

Baring Life

Colonization by Imagination

Common Grounds that Exclude

The Heart of the Matter

Imprisoned by Dreams

4 CONFRONTATION/EXCHANGE

Caliban in Qalandiya

On the Importance of Thugs

Of Fear, Contact, Entanglement

The Softer Side of Collision

Integration, Segregation, and Control

City of Riffraff

Re-imagining Jerusalem

5 INNOVATION/DESTRUCTION

The Thorn and the Flower

Present and Absent

The Israeli "Place" in East Jerusalem

The Planning Deadlock

Between War and Peace

To the Suburbs and Back

Interview

Alternative Narratives

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-35015-X

9786611350154

3-7643-7868-9

OCLC:

979596280