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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 14:50:37 +0530
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http://apjp.org/
By Esther Zandberg
About 200 British and Israeli architects and academics, including people
of international renown, have signed a manifesto initiated by the
British organization Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine,
which calls on Israeli architects and planners to put an end to being
"partners in social, political and economic oppression" in the occupied
territories, "which violates the professional ethics acceptable to all."
The manifesto points to three representative projects currently promoted
by the planning authorities: the master plan for the E1 region between
the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem, which will prevent
Palestinian territorial contiguity; construction in Silwan in East
Jerusalem, which involves the demolition of dozens of homes; and a plan
to build a luxury neighborhood on the remains of the former Palestinian
village of Lifta.
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The manifesto was published in The Times of London and in the British
architectural journal Building Design. A new book by architect Eyal
Weizman, called "Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation," has
recently been published in Britain. Weizman, who is among the
signatories of the manifesto, was one of the first to point an accusing
finger at the Israeli planning community for cooperating, through both
silence and action, with a policy of repression and occupation, and
placed the subject on the agenda of international architectural discourse.
cont'd....
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/863814.html