Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
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
Introduction: Thinking about Jerusalem / Michael Sorkin -- Displaced meanings, monuments, people / J.D. Dodds, Moustafa Bayoumi, and Ghiora Aharoni -- Hybrid city / Jafar Tukan -- Reading Jerusalem / Dag Tvilde and Ali Ziadah -- The new Canaanites / Romi Khosla -- The crescent model / Rassem Khamaisi -- My winter dreams / Achva Benzinberg Stein -- The subversion of Jerusalem's sacred vernaculars / Eyal Weizman -- The Palestine League / Mack Scogin -- Jerusalem SKY / Deborah Natsios and John Young -- Parrando's paradox: error in holy lands / Keller Easterling -- The people of Jerusalem reordered / Samira Haj -- A shared city of peace / Oren Yiftachel and Haim Yacobi -- Civilization Center: sketchbook for a public space / James Wines -- Spaces between the hills / Stella Betts, David Leven, and David Snyder -- To hell and back : Jerusalem's queer center / Amir Sumaka'i Fink -- Comments on the United Development Corporation's proposal -- Thom Mayne, Rose Mendez, and Caroline Barat -- Jerusalem: united city, two sovereignties / Moshe Safdie -- Jeruslem sic: toward a city of equals, capital of two states / Omar Youssef -- A plan for east Jerusalem / Michael Sorkin and Andrei Vovk -- The spectre of Jerusalem / Ariella Azoulay -- Sour justice, or: liberalist envy / Joan Copjec -- Meditations on a new Jerusalem / Lebbeus Woods -- Jerusalem portfolio / Rasem Badran -- Memories of contention: the sacred stones of Jerusalem / M. Christine Boyer.