By Professor of City and Regional Planning John Forester, Raphael Fischler, Deborah Shmueli
ISBN-10: 0791450570
ISBN-13: 9780791450574
This booklet records the pursuits, lives, reports, and perform of planners, architects, and group organizers who've contributed to the actual and social improvement of the fashionable country of Israel. of their personal phrases, those group developers proportion their specialist reviews of ways they safeguard and rebuild towns and neighborhoods, how they conquer stereotypes and bureaucratic inertia, how they safeguard the ordinary atmosphere and the general public well-being to boot. The tales illustrate the sensible international of neighborhood swap within which aesthetics and politics, ethnicity and culture, dedication and suggestion, exertions and desire all play an element. scholars of city and group lifestyles in lots of nations could be in a position to draw parts and issues from those specific tales that resonate with their very own issues, event, and destiny work."
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I was teaching in Haifa for eight years, until 1977. I was practicing in Jerusalem and teaching in Haifa. I had studied architecture and town planning. My diploma is in town planning, and I was teaching both architecture and planning. I am interested in urban architecture and the architecture of urbanism; I am interested in the combination of these rwo. I don't see planning separate from architecture. I am interested in the whole spectrum of scales, berween very detailed, tangible parts of architecture, and the largescale products.
This is a social concept that responds to the structure of the Old City. 1 From Desert Architecture to Community Planning in Acre A profile of Ari Rahamimoff Architect and city planner Ari Rahamimoffis a man ofcontrasts and ofsynthesis. An immigrant and a world traveler-he studied and taught in Israel, Europe, and North America-he is sensitive to the identity ofeach place, its "inner diversity" and organic unity. In his design and planning practice, he strives to understand the individual character ofthe site and to see it as much as possible through the eyes ofits inhabitants.
To do that, first of all we had to make it clear that there are no tourist-only services, there is no pavement for tourists which is separate from the pavement for the residents; there is no infrastructure just for the tourists, and no infrastructure just for the residents. We have to see the holistic qualities of the city. The officials said in the beginning that we only have money for the outer edge, for the waterfront, for tourism, and not enough for the inside of the city. But we said that this would be like giving headache pills to a patient who may have cancer.