The community settlement

A neo-rural territorial tool

Bibliographic Data

ID21500330
AuthorsGabriel Schwake (0000-0001-7176-3396, Delft University of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume36
Issue2
Pages237-257
Publication date2021-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlanning Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-5433 • E-ISSN: 1466-4518
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02665433.2020.1728569
OpenAlexW3008178365
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited39

The Israeli Community Settlements are small-scale non-agricultural villages that consist of a limited number of families and a homogenous character. This method began to be used by the Israeli government and its different planning agencies during the 1970s as a tool to strengthen the state's territorial and demographical control over the Israeli internal frontiers of the Galilee, the West-Bank and along the Green-Line. Unlike earlier settlement methods that relied on ideological values such as labour, agriculture, redemption, identity and integration, as part of the nation-building years, the Community Settlements promoted a more individual and neo-rural lifestyle. In this paper I ask to show how the Community Settlements formed the new leading tool for a national agenda, in correspondence with the changing ideals in Israeli culture, moving from a quasi-socialist society into a market-driven neoliberal one. Later, suburbanising the neo-rural phenomenon

Agriculture · Archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human settlement · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Rural community · Rural settlement · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance

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