[Urbanstudy] eyal weizman webcast: The Politics of Verticality: Architecture and Occupation in the West Bank

[Curt Gambetta]

I came across this lecture from a few years ago. It's reallly worth watching... about how politics imagines itself as a spatial or architectural system in Israel and Palestine. Given the recent push to reign in the informal city in India, we can learn a lot from the way in which walls, demolition or even surgical destruction (a la the war on terror... hence Wiezman more recently suggested we consider military strategy as a strategy of urban planning) have been used to destroy the livelihoods of the Palestinian people. His examples of Israeli settlement housing are fascinating... houses which are designed to evoke a relationship with the land and cultivation (on land previously cultivated by Palestinians). See especially the use of the red tiled roof... Sarjapura road anyone?

http://webcast.rice.edu/speeches/20040318weizman.html

or, see his articles on:

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/issue-2-45.jsp

curt




 
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