Jerusalem
“Jerusalem has always been in the center of conflicts. It was destroyed and rebuilt to the authorities’ visions every time it was conquered, and even the old city part which is a world heritage we see today is no longer anything close to what it looked like in the BCs. Today the deep rooted conflicts happened on this piece of land are mostly seen religion related. However to me the keyword of all these is “difference”. Geographically on the edge of three continents (Asia, Europe and Africa) means that difference in origin, race, religion, beliefs, and culture coexist within this region, and when none of these parties are willing to be ruled by ones that they do not agree with, wars are started. Over the course of its long history, the only things that always stay the same are the people’s desire to build their home, and the consequent deaths created as they fight over each other for the piece of holy land.”
– Ho Yuk Wong, “Conflict-City in the Middle of the World,” 2014
Narratives
Expropriation of Palestinian Land through Planting – Mount of Olives National Park V: Land-holding and Future Development – IDF Academy
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
As discussed in the previous sections, using greenery as a land-holding method was common for the Jerusalem government. Apart from infrastructure development, the government has also been occupying land for enhancing its political and military status. One of the controversial plans proposed at the end of 2012 was the construction of a military training academy ...
Expropriation of Palestinian Land through Planting – Mount of Olives National Park IV: Land-holding and Future Development – American Road
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
As discussed in the previous section, different organizations and groups, private or governmental, have participated in afforestation activities in Jerusalem, and from actual evidence, their intention in holding the land for economical values or political reasons has been obvious. Although stated in the Master Plan 2000, open spaces that are proposed to be preserved are ...
5. Mount Scopus as the Strategic Stepping Stone to West Bank
Leung Lok Yan
The previous narratives and sources primarily focus on reading Mount Scopus Slopes National Park as a mean of spatial segregation within Jerusalem. However, if we expand the scope of the study to the whole Israel-Palestine boundary, we will easily observe the significance of Mount Scopus as a strategic hinge to the Israeli-Palestinian tension. This episode ...
Expropriation of Palestinian Land through Planting – Mount of Olives National Park III: Evolution of Planting in Jerusalem
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
To further understand the importance of having a green belt that is completed by Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the history of using greenery in Jerusalem as an urban strategy will be studied in this part. In the beginning, the idea of using greenery in Jerusalem for different land purposes was by an organization, but not ...
4.The city of antiquity, hoarding as the mean; The city of hoarding, antiquity as the mean?
Leung Lok Yan
This writing questions the importance of heritage preservation in urban planning, especially in an antiquity intensive city, Jerusalem. It is also intriguing to understand how the modern Israeli government adopted a usual colonial heritage planning strategy and reinterpreted it to exercise the authority of demographic control. We will also see how the authority played multiple ...
An unexpected ending: do the Israelis succeed?
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Evaluation of Master Plan 2000 With such an oppressive strategy, do the demographic goals mentioned in the first narrative achieved? When looking into the demographic statistic for the past 20 years, annual growth rate for the Arabs (Palestinians) still persists at a much higher level than Jews. At the period after the practice of Master Plan 2000, ...
National park: Jews happiness at the expense of Palestinians
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The Stillborn Plan of High School Not only the expanded national park disrupted Palestinians plan of expanding the overcrowded town to its outskirt, it also ended their hopes of constructing the first high school in the region. There is no high school in Abu Thor, and the existing elementary schools are located at unhygienic rental structures. The ...
Historical Documents
The deleted website of E1 plan’s propaganda
Leung Lok Yan
Local Outline Plam Jerusalem 2000, without Palestinians
Leung Lok Yan
Facebook Meme: How Palestinian see Mount Scopus Scopes National Parks in a humorous but honest way
Leung Lok Yan
A urban planning map showing the clash of the Palestinian proposal and the Jewish government’s proposal
Leung Lok Yan
Visual Archive: The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Return to Mt Scopus
Leung Lok Yan
The start of oppression – United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The sequels – Jerusalem 5800 plan
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The Master Plan 2000 – the far-fetched expansion of National Park
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The Jewish revised garden city – Nahalal
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Historical Document V: Urban Plan by Patrick Geddes
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Historical Document IV: Urban Plan by William Mclean
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Historical Document III – 1944 Road Scheme by Henry Kendall
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Historical Document II: Afforestation in and around Jerusalem at different times
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Historical Document I: Local Outline Plan Jerusalem 2000 – Appendix 3: Open Spaces and Tourism
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
The backdrop of imbalanced development: 1918 Mclean Plan
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail V: Segregation, Mobility and Encounters in Jerusalem: “The Role of Public Transport Infrastructure in Connecting the ‘Divided City’” by Jonathan Rokem and Vaughan Laura
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail IV: “The Governmentalities of Infrastructure and Services Amid Urban Conflict: East Jerusalem in the Post Oslo era” by Oren Shlomo
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail III: “Sub-formality in the Formalization of Public Transport in East Jerusalem” by Oren Shlomo
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail II: “The Violence of Infrastructural Connectivity: Jerusalem’s Light Rail as a Means of Normalisation” by Hanna Baumann
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail I: “Politics, infrastructure and representation/ The case of Jerusalem’s Light Rail” by Nolte Amina and Yacobi Haim
Li Yin
Israel’s “Greater Jerusalem”
Munot Coral
Historical city progression of Jerusalem
Munot Coral
Cook’s Plan of Jerusalem
Munot Coral
Jerusalem History
Munot Coral
Plan of Jerusalem
Munot Coral
First Master Plan since 1967 – Master Plan 2000
Lam Oi Tung Iva
EJ/9 Plan by Israel National Parks Authority (INPA) in 1968
Lam Oi Tung Iva
Land Ownership Mapping in East Jerusalem in 2010
Lam Oi Tung Iva
Judaization as National Objective in Proclamation of Independence of State of Israel
Lam Oi Tung Iva
1864 Ordinance Survey of Jerusalem
HoMing Chau
Bibliography
Nationalistic design considerations of the Mount Scopus Hebrew University
Leung Lok Yan
Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis
Leung Lok Yan
The disparity of power, Procedure of Applying for a Building Permit in East Jerusalem
Leung Lok Yan
A report by an NGO, BIMKOM- Planners for Planning Rights
Leung Lok Yan
A report by an pro-government organisation, Jerusalem Centre of Foreign Affairs
Leung Lok Yan
Palestinian Master Plan 2000 – a compliance of both parties
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Bibliography V: The Planning Crisis in East Jerusalem: Understanding the Phenomenon of “Illegal” Construction
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Bibliography IV: Greenbelts in London and Jerusalem
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Greenery as political means – Hong Kong, Volgagrad and Jerusalem
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Bibliography III: Marrying Modern Progress with Treasured Antiquity’: Jerusalem City Plans during the British Mandate, 1917-1948
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
The origins of national aspirations
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The controversial project – Jerusalem Cable Car
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
The salvation of Hinnom Valley – merely a disguise?
Thomas Hui Tsz Nam
Bibliography II: Survey of the Palestinian Neighborhoods of East Jerusalem: Planning Problems and Opportunities
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Bibliography I: The Politics of Planting – Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery
Lee Tin Wing Alvina
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail V: “Locations of Light Rail Stations and the Route of its Red Line since 2011” by Hanna Baumann
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail IV: “The Jerusalem Marathon Poster” by Couturaud Louise
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail III: “40% of the Trains were Damaged by Rock Throwing during the Construction of Light Rail” by Marissa Newman
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail II: “Jerusalem’s Light Railway: Commuting with a Rifle through the Conflicted City” by Harriet Sherwood
Li Yin
Infrastructural Governance of Jerusalem Light Rail I: “Do You Mind Traveling With Arabs?” by Nir Hasson
Li Yin
Planning Jerusalem
Munot Coral
The Carta Jerusalem Atlas
Munot Coral
Dividing Jerusalem – British Urban Planning in the Holy city
Munot Coral
The space of contested Jerusalem
Munot Coral
Jerusalem master plan 1
Munot Coral
Securing the peace of Jerusalem: on the politics of unifying and dividing, 1997
Lam Oi Tung Iva
Right to Develop: Planning Palestinian Communities in East Jerusalem, UN Habitat, 2015
Lam Oi Tung Iva
The Urban Transformation of Jerusalem, 1967-2001, 2001
Lam Oi Tung Iva
Old and new walls in Jerusalem, 2005
Lam Oi Tung Iva
City of Collision, 2006
Lam Oi Tung Iva