Planning for a sustainable spatial development : the role of the local level in the Palestinian context

Other Title(s)

التخطيط لتنمية فضائية مستدامة و دور المستوى المحلي في الواقع الفلسطيني

Dissertant

Abu al-Layl, Wafa Awad Allah

Thesis advisor

Ghadban, Shadi

Comitee Members

Awad Allah, Faysal
Karakra, Samih al-Abd

University

Birzeit University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Department

Department of Architectural Engineering

University Country

Palestine (West Bank)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2009

English Abstract

Palestinian society is a victim of a process called "de development which is according to the Human Development Report (2002, p6) is achieved by preventing a society from using its political and economic potential and by preventing rational structural transformation of the society through indigenous means.

The Palestinians were a victim for such process since the ottoman period and continue through the different successive occupation periods to Palestine.

The de development mechanisms were varying through these periods, but mainly it was employed by the different layers of occupants' state laws and the military Israeli mechanism to cause extreme injurious to the process of social and political transformation. Sustainable spatial development in Palestine likewise any sustainable development requires sovereignty and control over the social, environmental and economic objectives to coordinate its development towards spatial sustainability.

It also required efficient institutional system to coordinate development between different sectors and fields.

Palestinian spatial development lacks the local level participatory approach due to the subsequent layers of occupation in Palestine, which prevent public participation and interaction in the planning process.

It also lacks the appropriate intervention planning level, the governorate level that coordinates and manages the relations between the governorate localities.

It is the appropriate level to achieve effective local participation in planning.

Hence, the local participation could provide such level with the effective partnership between its localities to achieve sustainable spatial development. Therefore achieving such development in Palestinian territories is conditional on crucial factors : 1.

Ending the Israeli occupation and control over the Palestinian land and resources and enabling the Palestinians to exercise their right of full control over land and natural resources. 2.

Establishing an independent, democratic state that requires simultaneous and equable effort in social, political and economic areas.

Technocratic and political leadership will need to work collectively to bring about necessary institutional change. 3.

Empowering the governmental institutional level. 4.

Empowering the local level to take the initiatives in defense of its legal and civil rights to participate in the spatial planning process. This study aims to discuss the Palestinian sustainable development opportunities and constrains in order to: • Set out methods of handling constrains specially these related to the local level role in the planning process ; through developing a citizen involvement structure. • Clarify opportunities through investigating the applicability of a sustainable spatial model in one of the Palestinian districts (Palestinian tissue) as a study case.

•To set out the needed policies and strategies to achieve sustainable spatial development in the Palestinian context.

Main Subjects

Sociology and Anthropology and Social Work

Topics

• Economic conditions
• Regional planning
• Palestine

No. of Pages

232

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-302626