Jerusalem

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 ...