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Hot Spots. Urban Voids in the Palestinian city of Nazareth
In the Palestinian city of Nazareth, visitors, passers-by and inhabitants incessantly experience the city’s urban voids; left-over spaces in-between a multiplicity of urban patches, sites that have been under dispute, that belong to many or to none. Sites where construction has start- ed but was interrupted, and frozen in time, urban squares and plazas where global tension dominates the streetscape. Properties where the family owning the land has grown so big it becomes impossible to reach an agreement on future plans. Over designed simulacra of the Italian piazza as a foreign visitor in the urban fabric, side by side with fields of an uncultivated and uninhabited landscape interrupting a dense and vibrant urban context, sometimes re-claimed temporarily by informal construction, graffiti, or wild growth of local species.
Hot Spots. Urban Voids in the Palestinian city of Nazareth
In the Palestinian city of Nazareth, visitors, passers-by and inhabitants incessantly experience the city’s urban voids; left-over spaces in-between a multiplicity of urban patches, sites that have been under dispute, that belong to many or to none. Sites where construction has start- ed but was interrupted, and frozen in time, urban squares and plazas where global tension dominates the streetscape. Properties where the family owning the land has grown so big it becomes impossible to reach an agreement on future plans. Over designed simulacra of the Italian piazza as a foreign visitor in the urban fabric, side by side with fields of an uncultivated and uninhabited landscape interrupting a dense and vibrant urban context, sometimes re-claimed temporarily by informal construction, graffiti, or wild growth of local species.
Hot Spots. Urban Voids in the Palestinian city of Nazareth
Els Verbakel (author)
2014
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