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The Global City and the Holy City

The Global City and the Holy City

Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity

Tovi Fenster

First published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2014 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-35660-3 (pbk)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fenster, Tovi.

The global city and the holy city : narratives on knowledge, planning, and diversity / Tovi Fenster.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-582-35660-1 (pbk.)

1. Quality of lifeEnglandLondon. 2. Human comfortEnglandLondon. 3. Quality of lifeJerusalem. 4. Human comfortJerusalem. I. Title.

HN398.L7F46 2004

306.094212dc21

2003053587

Typeset in 10/12 pt Sabon by 35

Contents

All photos were taken by Tovi Fenster unless otherwise credited:

The inspiration to write this book came out of my personal experiences of living in my two home cities: London and Jerusalem. Jerusalem is my home address, reflecting many aspects and expressions of my identity. London is my emotional and intellectual home. It is where during my years of working on my PhD studies I have learned that a city can become home not so much in official terms but in everyday practices. My life between the two cities continues today, in Jerusalem as a permanent home and in London through visits several times a year.

This book is based in many ways on these two home networks. I wish to dedicate this part of it to those colleagues and friends who were willing to share time and space to reflect on the different ideas that came out in the process of my writing it. In Jerusalem and Israel I wish to thank Haim Yacobi for the hours of discussions on the various topics of the book and for his helpful and constructive comments on some of the early draft chapters. I wish to thank Nurit Alfasi, who has been so supportive and patient and has made very helpful comments. My thanks go to Yitzhak Omer for clarifications and helpful comments on , and to Oren Yiftachel for his support and comments. Special thanks to Shamay Assif, whose ideas of comfort, belonging and commitment inspired me to take them further. I thank him for the time he spent discussing these issues and for his willingness to pursue a dialogue with me on the various topics that emerged in the process of my writing.

In London, I wish to thank Steve Pile for his support and helpful comments on some of the draft chapters. Thanks too to Nadia Taher who helped me to sharpen some of the arguments in some of the chapters. I also wish to thank Micheal Safier, Derek Diamond, Caren Levy and Micheal Parks for sharing their ideas with me and helping me to understand the planning system in London; Mr Nisar Ahmed, who dedicated time to clarify the intricacies of the life of the Bangladeshi in London; and Kay Jordan, Roda Brawne and Lea Gratch of the Spitalfields Small Business Association for presenting a different perspective and providing helpful insights into events in the Spitalfield Banglatown area.

I am grateful to my friends and colleagues in other parts of the world who spent time reading and commenting on early drafts of the book, especially to Leoni Sandercock for her kind and useful comments, to Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon for her supportive and constructive remarks and to Janice Monk for her insightful ideas.

I wish to thank all the people in London and Jerusalem who were willing to share with me their local knowledge of their daily life and who enriched me so much with their experiences, attitudes, emotions and wisdom. I dedicate this book to them.

Last but not least, thanks go to my family members, who have always been a stable source of support and love, especially to our young generation: Chen, Tom, Shir, Noam, Nir and Neta, who taught me the essence of comfort, belonging and commitment.

What does it mean to live in a city today? Do daily practices in cities have their similarities in spite of the different histories, economies, politics and cultures that cities represent? This is the first question that I pose in this book, perhaps because of my own personal experiences of living everyday life in various cities in the world and being able to feel at home in some of them. These experiences made me interested in what makes a city feel like a home and whether this is common to many people in many cities. So I pose another question: are the assumed differences between London, the global city and Jerusalem, the holy city reflected in peoples experiences of living in the two cities? I have chosen to focus on the daily practices of people in two specific cities in order to explore the similarities and differences of life in these cities. The book suggests that some of these everyday practices are not so different as might be assumed. It proposes that people of different national, cultural or gender identities might experience their city-as-home for similar reasons.

I then wanted to examine the links that can be established between these everyday experiences, what I term local embodied knowledge, and planning practice. This I perceive as the end result and as one of the major challenges of the book: how to articulate the local knowledge that has been exposed and analysed in the various chapters into planning practice. The book suggests new ways of incorporating these similar and different experiences in the planning process. The planning process is perceived here as a joint procedure integrating both the professional knowledge of planners and local embodied knowledge of people in shaping and reshaping cityscapes.

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