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Public Spaces in Jerusalem | Building Visions for the Future of Jerusalem

Public Spaces in Jerusalem

Within the mixed city of Jerusalem, there are significant differences between neighbourhoods and the social groups that inhabit them. Many social and academic organizations attempted to analyse the core problems within disadvantaged neighbourhoods, mostly in East Jerusalem. In this thematic discussion about public spaces in Jerusalem, we invited Israeli and Palestinian residents to voice out their needs and problems. Our attempt is to look at public spaces from a community perspective nested in a mixed city – how can public spaces be equalized between the social groups in Jerusalem? How infrastructure, the most urgent issue raised by Israeli and Palestinian Jerusalem residents, can become a base towards uniting discussion about justice and redistribution? Our bottom-up approach calls upon the residents, with the help of professionals to focus, analyse and recommend how to make the ‘Jerusalem mix’ with its growing public spaces needs an opportunity for a better future in Jerusalem.