Urban Planning amidst Ethnic Conflict

Jerusalem and Johannesburg

Bibliographic Data

ID10859632
AuthorsScott A Bollens (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, California 92697-7075, USA, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume35
Issue4
Pages729-750
Publication date1998-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/0042098984727
OpenAlexW2070318712
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited20

This article investigates the role and influence of urban planning in ameliorating or intensifying deep ethnic conflict. It is based on more than 75 interviews with urban planners and officials in Jerusalem and Johannesburg. Partisan Israeli planners utilise territorial policies that penetrate and diminish Palestinian land control. Post-apartheid urban policy in Johannesburg has pursued both conflict resolution and socioeconomic equity and is seeking to restructure apartheid geography. Both policy strategies are problematic. It is likely that partisan Israeli planning is creating an urban landscape of heightened political contestability and increased Jewish vulnerability. Johannesburg's equity planning is likely to be insufficient as economic forces shape new spatial inequalities. Urban planning must be reconceptualised in polarised cities so that it can contribute meaningfully to the advancement of ethnic peace

Civil engineering · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Equity (law · Ethnic group · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Spatial planning · Urban planning · Vulnerability (computing · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance

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