Beyond proper political squatting
The public and academic debate about urban squatting in Western cities has been dominated by research on collectively organized, politically-motivated …
Tag: occupation
Juggling the formal and the informal
This paper focuses on the informal occupation of public housing in Naples (Italy), analysing a specific mechanism, the fraudulent takeover, …
Planning into the conflict
This paper investigates the Jerusalem Master Plan with reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Master Plan is …
The Transformation of Jerusalem by the Israeli Barrier
The paper analyses the territorial implications of the Israeli barrier/wall with reference to the metropolitan area of Jerusalem. The thesis …
Planning illegality in East Jerusalem
This paper investigates the role of Israeli residential policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over East Jerusalem. The focus is specifically …
The Next Jerusalem
The paper investigates a potential scenario for the urban development of Jerusalem in the coming decades. In particular, two elements …
The space of the conflict in Jerusalem
In the last few days, several newspaper articles have accounted in detail for the Sheikh Jarrah events (the risk of …