Wendy Pullan

• University of Cambridge

Violence is a regular occurrence at many of Jerusalem's holy sites. Ongoing civilian clashes play a role, but official modes of control through the Israeli army (IDF) and Border Police, as well as more informal private security operations are often involved. Such militarisation may keep violent upheavals in check, but it is carried out within the f...

This article will focus on an ongoing process of Jerusalem’s contested urban space during the last decade namely the immigration of Palestinians, mostly Israeli citizens, to “satellite neighbourhoods”, i.e. Jerusalem’s colonial neighbourhoods that were constructed after 1967. Theoretically, this paper attempts to discuss neighbourhood planning in c...

Violence is a regular occurrence at many of Jerusalem's holy sites. Ongoing civilian clashes play a role, but official modes of control through the Israeli army (IDF) and Border Police, as well as more informal private security operations are often involved. Such militarisation may keep violent upheavals in check, but it is carried out within the f...

The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.

Transformed communications and mobility have led to the reinterpretation of urban space, so that instead of regarding it as primarily bounded and geometrically definable, it may be understood as based on a series of relations and, thus, continuously open to its own temporality. So where does this leave contested cities where differences in civic po...

In studying cities that have experienced prolonged and intense levels of ethnic, national and/or religious conflict, certain queries regularly arise: how are such conflicts manifested in the cities? To what extent are these major disputes and related phenomena long term or permanent? And are they part of more widespread urban processes? A definitiv...

This article analyses the little studied development of Jerusalem's ‘Holy Basin’ in its religious, intellectual and urban history. The Holy Basin is a geographical zone surrounding and including the historic Old City of Jerusalem; together, basin and walled enclosure contain the majority of sites holy to Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the city....

Amongst Jerusalem's many venerated and contested sites, the City of David, just south of the Old City, stands out for the speed with which it has recently become the centre of national and international attention. This fame has developed along two parallels lines. The site has developed from a patchwork of excavations pits into a rapidly expanding...

In a city where tourist numbers regularly suffer from bleak headlines of political unrest and violence, one set of statistics appears to buck the trend. Just south of Jerusalem’s Old City, the City of David archaeological park has surged from 25,000 visitors in 2001 to 350,000 in 2007. The site has developed from a patchwork of excavation pits into...

This chapter proposes a new way of thinking about early Christian pilgrimage. The key to understanding it, the author argues, is the Christian view of the terrestrial sojourn as a state of perpetual estrangement and journey, alienated from worldly concerns, on the way to but not yet arrived at the Heavenly City. The world that the early Christian p...

Road 1 is a four- to six-lane divided carriageway that runs north-south through Jerusalem and separates Israeli and Palestinian sectors. We argue that this thoroughfare brings the frontier into the centre of Jerusalem while at the same time contributing to Israeli spatial continuity. In many ways, Road 1 functions like the bypass roads of the Occup...

THE ISRAELI WALL, FAR FROM BEING MEDIEVAL, IS AN ESPECIALLY MODERN RESPONSE, RIFE WITH THE REMAINS OF COLD WAR OBFUSCATION THAT VIEWED THE WORLD DIVIDED BY THE IRON CURTAIN AS AN ESSENTIALLY ONE-SIDED DIVISION

This paper investigates the early Christian memory and interpretation of pagan precedents at Golgotha in Jerusalem. Christian scriptural narrative required that the holy sites were seen within some context of history, and a fourth-century text by church historian Eusebius attempts to situate the discovery of Christ’s tomb and the subsequent Constan...

The Shape of the Holy. Early Islamic Jerusalem By OlegGrabar, Princeton University Press, 1996. 232 pp., 6 mono and 78 colour illus. ISBN 0 691 03653 5 Price £45 - Volume 2 Issue 4 - Wendy Pullan