In the summer of 2011, after decades of virtually uncontested neoliberalization, Israel was
swept by unprecedented protests against the rising cost of living, social inequality and, most …

The right to housing is generally understood as a local struggle against the global
commodification of housing. While useful for recognising overarching urbanisation …

Haifa, a major seaport in the Eastern Mediterranean, is one of Israel's “mixed cities” where
Palestinians and Jews live together. Yet, unlike other mixed localities, which witness rising …

Dada artist and architect, Marcel Janco, prevented the demolishing of the Palestinian village
of Ein Hawd after the 1948 war. He succeeded to restore the village and to establish in it the …

In 1949, in the newly founded state of Israel, South African architects Norman Hanson and
Roy Kantorowich planned the city of Ashkelon and, within it, the exclusive neighbourhood …

Housing policy and housing design have a long history as instruments of colonial
domination in Israel and as strategies for shaping the Jewish state as such. This thesis …

This dissertation explores the contentious and contradictory ways the development of
authoritarian infrastructure shapes state-citizenship relations, using the urban as an entry …

Art as Preservation: Interventions in Sites-in-Conflict, Israel, 1948-2008 Research thesis In
Partial Fulfillment of the Require Page 1 Art as Preservation: Interventions in Sites-in-Conflict …

The Israeli National Library of Israel and Ministry of Heritage, recently commissioned a
digitization project that would create a central digital repository of Israeli Culture. This …

This dissertation looks at the ways in which the landscape and the built environment have
been called upon and transformed into conduits of national belonging, focusing on the near …