Urban Planning amidst Ethnic Conflict: Jerusalem and Johannesburg

Scott A. Bollens
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Scott A. Bollens: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California, 202 Social Ecology I, Irvine, California 92697-7075, USA, sabollen@uci.edu

Urban Studies, 1998, vol. 35, issue 4, 729-750

Abstract: This article investigates the role and influence of urban planning in ameliorating or intensifying deep ethnic conflict. It is based on more than 75 interviews with urban planners and officials in Jerusalem and Johannesburg. Partisan Israeli planners utilise territorial policies that penetrate and diminish Palestinian land control. Post-apartheid urban policy in Johannesburg has pursued both conflict resolution and socioeconomic equity and is seeking to restructure apartheid geography. Both policy strategies are problematic. It is likely that partisan Israeli planning is creating an urban landscape of heightened political contestability and increased Jewish vulnerability. Johannesburg's equity planning is likely to be insufficient as economic forces shape new spatial inequalities. Urban planning must be reconceptualised in polarised cities so that it can contribute meaningfully to the advancement of ethnic peace.

Date: 1998
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