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Author Shoked, Noam, author.

Title In the land of the patriarchs : design and contestation in West Bank settlements / Noam Shoked
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices
Contents Urban transplants -- Community settlements -- Quality-of-life settlements -- Faithful cities -- Outposts -- Appendix : planning, design, and development agencies mentioned in the book
Summary "An account of the design of West Bank settlements from 1967, when housing settlements were still an abstract idea, to the present, when they have become hotly contested. It addresses the complicated relationship between politics and the built environment and questions assumptions about politics and the built environment. The author looks closely at five settlements-Hebron, Ofra, Nofim, Beitar Illit, and Pnei Kedem-to analyze the settlement movement, the country Israel has become since 1967, and, more broadly, "the production of space in sites of political conflict." For Shoked, the role of contingency is key: government policy shaped the design of settlements, but so too did other actors. As Shoked writes, "the analytic categories of expert and user, above and below, frequently dissolve in the unfolding process of design, construction, and inhabitation.""-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 2, 2023)
Subject Israelis -- Housing -- West Bank -- Design -- History
Human settlements -- West Bank -- Design -- History
Architecture, Domestic -- West Bank -- Design -- History
Human settlements -- West Bank -- Design -- Case studies
Israelis -- Housing -- Political aspects -- West Bank
Human settlements -- Political aspects -- West Bank
Land settlement -- Political aspects -- West Bank
City planning -- Political aspects -- West Bank
ARCHITECTURE / General
Architecture, Domestic -- Design.
City planning -- Political aspects.
Land settlement -- Political aspects.
West Bank.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477327852
1477327851