Add to ORKGIn mid-1920s British Mandate Palestine, the German-born Jewish architect and planner, Richard Kauffmann (1887-1958), prepared a town planning scheme for Afula and a ‘preliminary regional development scheme for the Haifa Bay’. The topical relevance of these two experiments stands in the original relations they attempted to establish with the physical environment and the ‘geographic stage’ at a national scale. The chosen location for the foundation of the new town of Afula as an ‘intermediate agro-city’ was the barycentre of the Jezreel Valley, ‘cradle of the agricultural Communities’ and ‘core of the Jewish State’ (Koestler, 1946). Haifa, instead, was to be implemented into a major port city aimed to compete with Beirut on the international ...
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Soon after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, proclaimed on 14 May 1948, t...
This thesis combines anthropological perspectives on materiality, the state, and urban planning to d...
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Palestinian urban and cultural landscape has radically change...
In Israeli architectural history, both the official dominant position and the emerging critique usua...
This study provides a first history of the emergence of urban and national planning in Jewish Palest...
Urban Planning emerged out to achieve welfare and progress of human being. Many theorists wrote abou...
This study evaluates the gap between Zionist architectural theories and their practical implementati...
Jerusalem is the declared capital of Israel, fundamental to Jewish tradition, and a contested city, ...
This paper asserts that urban planning is a critical tool in designing an effective, attractive, fun...
In the past two decades, two big processes have changed the urban configuration of Jerusalem: The co...
Settling in Palestine is an integral part of the national revival of the Jewish nation, which eventu...
Similarly as in many new states and ›developing countries‹ in the era after World War II, transnatio...
The “return to the land” and the formation of a Jewish peasantry represented the main lines and the ...
In 2004, the municipality of Tel Aviv initiated a New Urbanistic urban-renewal project for one of it...
It is indeed a challenging task we are presented with – to imagine the city of Jerusalem 50 years fr...
Soon after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, proclaimed on 14 May 1948, t...
This thesis combines anthropological perspectives on materiality, the state, and urban planning to d...
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Palestinian urban and cultural landscape has radically change...