The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City - Softcover

Sorkin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580931006 ISBN 13: 9781580931007

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 this title

From the Inside Flap:

Jerusalem is in a unique position to bend modernity and tradition to create a global model of cooperation, economic innovation, and sustainable environmental practice. As a paradign of the kind of social mosaic that will increasingly charactize the world's cities, Jerusalem migh well become a laboratory for spatial practices that mediate the autonomy of individuals and of groups and for the cooperation of cities and nations. As a purely physical matter, this presents very little difficulty.

Perhaps architecture can help.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Monacelli Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1580931006
• ISBN 13: 9781580931007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432