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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:21:45 +0530
Architexturez. wrote:
Safdie: The man against the plan
By Esther Zandberg
"I have no problem with the West Jerusalem plan being postponed and
canceled," says the man behind the plan, architect Moshe Safdie, "on one
condition - that they don't build at all in this area. If they leave the
area open and green, then that's fine with me.
On February 6 the National Planning Council, by a vote of 24 to 3,
overwhelmingly rejected the Western Jerusalem Plan, commonly known as
the Safdie Plan, which called for building 20,000 housing units on
24,000 dunams in the hills west of Jerusalem.
The plan, which was originally commissioned by the Israel Lands
Administration and the Jerusalem Development Authority and given to
world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie (a native son of Jerusalem), was
opposed by the largest coalition of activists ever assembled in the
city, a group of 20 organizations led by the Society for the Protection
of Nature in Israel.
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