Planning and architecture of modern Beersheba: between the celestial and infernal

Shadar Hadas ()
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Shadar Hadas: School of Design, University of Haifa, Israel

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2024, vol. 28, issue 4, 176-183

Abstract: In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino describes Beersheba as a city with two projections: the celestial city that its inhabitants honor, and the infernal one – the receptacle of everything they renounce. In contrast to the other cities in the book, terrestrial Beersheba is real, but like its literary counterpart, it also has two projections – celestial and infernal. This article addresses these projections as articulated in the planning of the city and its neighborhoods, and particularly in its public buildings. In a similar manner to Calvino, it is argued that precisely what its inhabitants deem infernal inheres the celestial aspect as well.

Keywords: Urban planning; architecture; brutalism; Beersheba; Italo Calvino (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2023-0044

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