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The Global City and the Holy City: Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity book cover

1st Edition

The Global City and the Holy City Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity

By Tovi Fenster Copyright 2004
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge
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The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces in which they live. By deconstructing the meanings of these three notions and... Read more

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Preface

1. Introduction

Part I: Planning, Knowledge and Diversity in the City

2. Planning traditions, globalisation and the discourse around knowledge: History, criticism and change

3. Society and space: Diversity, difference and knowledge in the global city

4. London and Jerusalem: Whose planning, whose power, whose diversity?

Part II: The Local Embodied Knowledge of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment in the Global and the Holy City

5. On comfort

6. On belonging

7. On commitment

8. Gender identity and the local embodied knowledge of comfort, belonging and commitment

Part III: Different Ways of Knowing: Diversity, Knowledge and Cognitive Temporal Maps

9. The images of comfort, belonging and commitment in cognitive temporal mapping

Part IV: Between the ‘Holy’ and the ‘Global’: On Local Embodied Knowledge and Spatial Planning

10. Local knowledge and the planning of the built environment: Lessons in practice

11. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Fenster, Tovi

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