The Next Jerusalem Sharing the Divided City

by Sorkin, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781580931007
• ISBN10: 1580931006
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-02
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

This important collection brings together noted Israeli, Palestinian, and American architects and urbanists to consider the physical future of Jerusalem and to offer specific proposals for making the city functional, beautiful, and physically generous to its inhabitants' needs. The essays focus on issues of ecology, preservation, neighborhood development, and open space. While the authors take a variety of approaches, all agree on the necessity of sharing the city amicably. Contributors are Ghiora Aharoni, Moustafa Bayoumi, and Jerrilyn D. Dodds; Ariella Azoulay; Rasem Badran; Stella Betts, David Leven, and David Snyder; M. Christine Boyer; Joan Copjec; Keller Easterling; Samira Haj; Rassem Khamaisi; Romi Khosla; Thom Mayne, Rose Mendez, and Caroline Barat; Deborah Natsios and John Young; Moshe Safdie; Mack Scogin; Michael Sorkin and Andrei Vovk; Achva Benzinberg Stein; Amir Sumaka'i Fink; Jafar Tukan; Dag Tvilde and Ali Ziadah; Eyal Weizman; James Wines; Lebbeus Woods; Oren Yiftachel and Haim Yacobi; and Omar Youssef.

Author Biography

Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York and director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at the City College of New York. His books include Variations on a Theme Park, Exquisite Corpse, Local Code, Giving Ground, Michael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle, Some Assembly Required, Other Plans, and Analyzing Ambasz.

Table of Contents

Preface	8	(12)
Introduction: Thinking about Jerusalem	12	(10)
Displaced Meanings / Monuments / People	22	(14)
J.D. Dodds
Moustafa Bayoumi
Ghiora Aharoni
Hybrid City	36	(14)
Jafar Tukan
Reading Jerusalem	50	(12)
Dag Tvilde
Ali Ziadah
The New Canaanites	62	(22)
Romi Khosla
The Crescent Model	84	(24)
Rassem Khamaisi
My Winter Dreams	108	(12)
Achva Benzinberg Stein
The Subversion of Jerusalem's Sacred Vernaculars	120	(26)
Eyal Weizman
The Palestine League	146	(6)
Mack Scogin
Jerusalem SKY	152	(18)
Deborah Natsios
John Young
Parrando's Paradox: Error in Holy Lands	170	(18)
Keller Esterling
The People of Jerusalem Reordered	188	(14)
Samira Haj
A Shared City of Peace	202	(14)
Oren Yiftachel
Haim Yacobi
Civilization Center: Sketchbook for a Public Space	216	(8)
James Wines
Spaces between the Hills	224	(14)
Stella Betts
David Leven
David Snyder
To Hell and Back: Jerusalem's Queer Center	238	(22)
Amir Sumaka'i Fink
Comments on the United Development Corporation's Proposal	260	(8)
Thom Mayne
Rose Mendez
Caroline Barat
Jerusalem: United City, Two Sovereignties	268	(24)
Moshe Safdie
Jerusalem: Toward a City of Equals, Capital of Two States	292	(14)
Omar Youssef
A Plan for East Jerusalem	306	(14)
Michael Sorkin
Andrei Vovk
The Spectre of Jerusalem	320	(18)
Ariella Azoulay
Sour Justice, or: Liberalist Envy	338	(16)
Joan Copjec
Meditations on a New Jerusalem	354	(14)
Lebbeus Woods
Jerusalem Portfolio	368	(10)
Rasem Badran
Memories of Contention: The Sacred Stones of Jerusalem	378	(48)
M. Christine Boyer
Biographies	426