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From colonial to national landscape

Producing Haifa’s cityscape

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ID23233473
AuthorsZiva Kolodney (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology), Rachel Kallus (0000-0001-6895-516X, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Year2008
Volume23
Issue3
Pages323-348
Publication date2008-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlanning Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-5433 • E-ISSN: 1466-4518
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02665430802102815
OpenAlexW2083835112
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The landscape’s continuity makes it a most efficient means for shaping the cityscape. Contrary to architecture/planning periodical historical approach, it is argued that the urban landscape’s dynamic requires a fresh outlook in order to portray its time–space linear structure. The paper examines the city of Haifa in transition from colonial to the nation‐building era through the landscape production mechanism that this article calls erascape. The investigation shows how this mechanism arises from political agenda to become a powerful agent in constructing Haifa’s socio‐cultural relations. Examining the remaking of Haifa Old City enables one to understand landscape production strategies as interplay between professionals (architects and planners), administrators and politicians operating in the transformative making of colonial and national cityscapes. Landscape production, as embedded through design knowledge and planning procedures, is examined in maps, drawings, diagrams and sketches, in official and private correspondence, in laws and regulations, and as it appears in historical photographs and exists in today’s spatial experience of the city.

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Art · Business · Cityscape · Civil engineering · Colonialism · Economics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Sociology · Transformative learning · Urban planning · Visual arts · Architecture · Engineering · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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Citation span2013 - 2025 (13)
Highly citedNo

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