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Book SynopsisShaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building regulations. From a political point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may appear to be at an impasse; however, it is precisely by looking at the city's physical space that one can perceive that a war of cement and stone is under way.
Many books have been written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem; some of them have focused on the urban fabric; Shaping Jerusalem uniquely discusses the role of Israeli spatial actions within the conflict. It argues that Israel's main political objective control over the whole city is ordinarily and silently pursued through physical devices which permanently modify the territory and the urban fabric.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. The spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem
2. The occupied city: planning the occupation of East Jerusalem
3. The illegal city: urban policies for Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem
4. The locked city: the separation Barrier as territorial strategy
5. The lesson of Jerusalem
