Regional socio-economic and territorial continuity of the Arab villages surrounding east Jerusalem

Other Title(s)

تواصل إقليمي و اقتصادي-اجتماعي للقرى العربي المحيطة بالقدس الشرقية

Dissertant

Mari, Khalid

Thesis advisor

Egbaria, Qasim

Comitee Members

Amr, Jamal
Qasim, Muin

University

Birzeit University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Department

Department of Architectural Engineering

University Country

Palestine (West Bank)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2006

English Abstract

After the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of the city in jagged manner, enabling it to include as much land as possible while excluding as much of the Palestinian population as possible.

The Israeli government kept 28 villages which are surrounding East Jerusalem and were related to Jerusalem administratively before 1967 outside Jerusalem municipality borders that was created in that time.

This was made because these communities are far from the old city and dense in population, and the Israeli policy aimed to keep this area as a future expansion for Jerusalem municipal borders and as a security buffer zone as it separate Jerusalem from the surrounding governorates.

However, this Israeli policy is an attempt to ignore this area from basic municipal services to enforce its residents to leave it for its strategic location around Jerusalem and in the middle of the west bank and it’s the only way that connects the south of the west bank to the north.

Consequently, these villages became shattered and separated from each other and from the center of the city and suffer from a deep-rooted multi-component situation because the presence of residents in this urban space requires administrative management and a provision of daily services without waiting for the final political solution about Jerusalem.

Nevertheless, devising alternatives and scenarios of the administrative situation that could be occurred is a must.

Meanwhile, any solution or arrangement of these villages that are surrounding East Jerusalem must take into consideration the proposed geopolitical solutions in the public scale to the conflict ; otherwise, it would obscure their implementation once they are reached. This means that any proposed structure for the urban management of these villages in the interim phase must be capable of providing daily services to the current residents in order to fulfill their permanent needs, consequently efficient territorial continuity between them which might pave the way of the birth of new sub regions that focused on specific service according to its potential characteristics and serve the other sub regions, which can create an integrated self-sufficiency in the daily services in this area.

The main objective of this proposal is to investigate these sub regions and link between them according to their overall natural and political characteristics of this region taking into considerations the proposed administrative scenarios.

Main Subjects

Civil Engineering

Topics

• Urban planning
• Regional planning
• Palestine
• Jerusalem

No. of Pages

123

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-302601