This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial
fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the …

In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from
1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek …

Urban events like 9‐11 and the Arab Spring have deeply marked the first two decades of a
century in which the majority of the world population will live in cities. This essay reviews …

Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s
saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move …

This paper assesses ways in which urban segregation is shaped and transformed by
Jerusalem's public transport network, enhancing mobility and potential group encounters …

This article seeks to outline a conceptual landscape that can assist us to better grasp how
urban communities torn and traumatised by violent conflicts remain divided in peace and …

Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest
monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem's other-worldly …

Urban conflict in Jerusalem has mainly been studied through the lens of spatial and
functional segregation and discriminative fragmentation between Israeli and Palestinian …

This paper is about place making in Jerusalem, an important city at the heart of the
Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It examines how place making in Jerusalem has had the …

This paper assesses how spatial configurations shape and transform individual and
collective forms of urban violence, suggesting that geographies of urban violence should be …