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Terms and conditions applyCity of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism
Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets
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Format: Book
Pages: 400
Publisher: Birkhauser
Date Published: Jun 2006
Stock Code: 57446
Binding: Paperback
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Almost eight decades of violent urban conflict have transformed Jerusalem into an extreme spatial conflagration. From a Western perspective, the city is all too often considered an uncanny reminder of an age long past: colonial and terrorist violence blurring distinctions between the military and civilian. But as a laboratory of conflict urbanism, Jerusalem is in fact closer than we think. Cities worldwide are exposed to dramatic changes following new security policies and preventative measures against real or imagined threats.
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 centres 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-mans-land, and the instrumentalization of infrastructures, which leads to the crass juxtaposition of highly developed and impoverished urban spaces.
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