city of collision
| The publication of the book title ‘City of Collision’ (pdf with list of content) yesterday evening at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, has been accompanied by |   |
Among the participants E. Weizman was the clearest to point out that a comparison like this never can be acchieved on an easy level. A generalisation of the situation of Jerusalem neither works via the israelization of american policiy nor through the equalization of the specific palestinian situation with other spatial related conflicts and thus does effectively contribute on a general level to discussion on terror and ‘war on freedom’ issues. The complexity and the level of interconnection roots much deeper within this specific multilayered conflict, nevertheless some occurances might hint to general developments … or viceversa.
| Consequently this understanding is more likely to be reflected by Peter Marcuse’s comment that urban structures can be read like molecules displaying formatting patterns of |  Road systems: Har Homa / Sur Bahir |
Interesting as an initial thought yesterday was surely as well Weizman’s comment that architectural form always also displays a certain incorporated flexibility of politics and rarely just emerges from a straight transformation of drawn lines. The example he gave here was the dividing wall, which surely never to the palestinian benefit – as anyway on their territory and beyond the green line – was eventually moved a little bit west according to ease some too rude circumstances of seperation of land/culture occuring during its construction. At the same time noting that this happened to stay just a little bit below that fine line that kept the humanitarian desaster of the Palestinians on a level beyond an international outcry against this steady humiliation …
[...] for “spatiocide” I then found these two pages (1 and 2), which are both about a 2006 book titled City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of [...]