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Loose ends: the role of architecture in constructing urban borders in Tel Aviv-Jaffa since the 1920s
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Tali Hatuka - * Tali Hatuka is currently a Fulbright post-doctorate fellow at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has recently completed her PhD dissertation in Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. She has a BArch. from the Technion and an MA in Urban Design from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh College of Art and has taught Architecture and Town Planning at Technion. Her research and publications focus on the relationship between extreme events of violence, everyday life and the built environment.a;
Rachel Kallus - Rachel Kallus is a senior lecturer in architecture, urban design and town planning at the Technion in Haifa. She has an M.A. in Architecture from MIT and a PhD from the Technion. She has worked as an architect in the USA, the Netherlands and Israel, mainly in the area of housing, planning and design. Her research focuses on the interplay between planning policy and architectural design and examines the relationships between policy measures, their physical outcomes and their everyday lived experience, especially in relation to equity, equality and social justice. Rachel Kallus has lectured and published extensively on these topics in various planning and architecture publications.b
| Affiliations: | a Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-7-337, USA |
| b Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel |
DOI:
10.1080/02665430500397188
Publication Frequency:
4 issues per year
Subjects:
Architectural History;
Environmental History;
Planning;
Planning - Human Geography;
Planning, Housing & Land Economy;
Population Geography;
Social & Cultural History;
Urban History;
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Abstract
A border is an ideological socio-cultural construct by which communities define and defend their territory. But what are its formal and spatial configurations? How is the border architecturally conceived and perceived? This paper investigates these questions through analysis of three border typologies - the door, the bridge and the gateway - fostering a new discussion of architecture as a border-making practice. It also relates to how architects and planners contribute to conflict, and to ethnic and physical barrier-making by not being fully aware of the cultural and political implications of their actions. These ideas are discussed in the context of Israel/Palestine and the dynamic of the demarcation and separation between Israelis and Palestinians since the early twentieth century. It focuses specifically on the border zone between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, the Menshiyeh quarter. By examining border-making from architectural and urban perspectives, the paper expands the political-historical discussion of Israeli boundaries and clarifies the relationships between conflict (destruction), architecture (construction) and the everyday life of groups and individuals in today's world of modern nationalism.
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