Jerusalem and its environs : quarters, neighborhoods, villages, 1800-1948 / Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim.

Main entry:

Kark, Ruth, author.

Title & Author:

Jerusalem and its environs : quarters, neighborhoods, villages, 1800-1948 / Ruth Kark, Michal Oren-Nordheim.

Publication:

Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press ; Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2001]

Description:

443 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Israel studies in historical geography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-411) and index.
Ch. 1. The Development of the Quarters within the Walled City -- Ch. 2. The Emergence from the Walled City in the Latter Part of the Ottoman Period -- Ch. 3. The Jerusalem Neighborhoods during the British Mandate -- Ch. 4. The Villages in Jerusalem's Rural Hinterland -- Ch. 5. Agricultural Settlement in Jerusalem's Rural Periphery: Plans, Attempts, Successes.

Summary:

"This is an illustrated account of the urban and rural development of Jerusalem from the early 19th century when Ottoman Jerusalem was encompassed by its sixteenth century walls, and was divided into quarters and courtyard units of its various religious and ethnic groupings, to the end of the Mandate period in the mid-20th century. The seeds of the current situation in Jerusalem were sown at that time. It traces the city's interaction with its rural hinterland until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 when Jerusalem was divided into two - the Jewish quarter of the Old City and some Jewish neighborhoods and villages were occupied by Arabs, while Jews occupied a number of Arab neighborhoods and villages. The book reconstructs and analyzes processes of establishing a variety of new types of Arab Muslim and Christian, Jewish and European Christian neighborhoods - built as community housing, extended family neighborhoods, commercial neighborhoods, and laborers' and garden suburbs. It covers the construction of institutional complexes, the introduction of significant changes in Jerusalem's administration, the creation of new planning frameworks, the planning of new settlements around the city, the concentration of large tracts of agricultural land by Jerusalem's Arab effendis, and the development of the Arab and Jewish villages in the rural hinterland."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0814329098
9780814329092

Subject:

City planning Jerusalem.
City planning
Geography
Raumentwicklung
Siedlung
Stadtentwicklung
Jerusalem History 19th century.
Jerusalem History 20th century.
Jerusalem Geography.
Jérusalem Histoire 19e siècle.
Jérusalem Histoire 20e siècle.
Jerusalem. Historical geography. [literature] 2001.
Middle East Jerusalem
Jerusalem Region
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Israel) Description and travel 19th century.
Jerusalem (Israel) Description and travel 20th century.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Oren-Nordheim, Michal, author.
Israel studies in historical geography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218779
Call No.: DS109.925 .K3 2001
Status: Available

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