Objective possibility as urban possibility: reading Max Weber in the city

Meirav Aharon-Gutman and Moriel Ram

Journal of Urban Design, 2018, vol. 23, issue 6, 803-822

Abstract: By employing Max Weber’s concept of objective possibility, this paper offers a theoretical conceptualization of a methodological approach to studying roads not taken in diversified cities. The paper incorporates Weber’s insight from the viewpoint of socio-historical analysis into an analysis of urban environments. In search of ‘other’ possibilities of planning, the paper presents a case study of the informal synagogues set up in Israel by members of Judeo-Arab communities. In this case, the possibility that was not actualized is ‘intimate publicness’, which encompasses new forms of organizing the relationship between private and public spaces.

Date: 2018
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