Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Introduction, Haim Yacobi, Tovi Fenster; Chapter 1 Remembering Forgotten Landscapes: Community Gardens in New York City and the Reconstruction of Cultural Diversity, Efrat Eizenberg; Chapter 2 1This chapter was originally published in: Haim Yacobi, “From State-Imposed Urban Planning to Israeli Diasporic Place: The Case of Netivot and the Grave of Baba Sali”, in Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt and Alexandra Nocke (eds) Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Tradition and Place (Aldershot: Ashgate, ), 63–82., Sachin Haism; Chapter 3 Neighbourhood and Belonging: Turkish Immigrant Women Constructing the Everyday Public Space, Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy; Chapter 4 1Another version of this chapter has been published in: Ismael Abu-Saad and Oren Yiftachel, eds. HAGAR Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, 8/2 Special Issue: Bedouin-Arab Society in the Negev/Naqab: Studies in Policy, Resistance and Development (Beersheba: Ben Gurion University, ), 93–120., Safa Abu-Rabia; Chapter 5 One Place – Different Memories: The Case of Yaad and Miaar, Tovi Fenster; Chapter 6 The Reconstructed City as Rhetorical Space: The Case of Volgograd, Elena Trubina; Chapter 7 *This chapter is a modified version of my Hebrew-language article “Se'ol: Hebetim shel havnayat zehut be-emtsa'ut ha-nof ha-ironi”, in Zikaron, Hashkahah, ve-Havnayat ha-Merhav, ed. Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster (Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Van Leer Institute, forthcoming) (Hebrew)., Guy Podoler; Chapter 8 “We Shouldn’t Sell Our Country!”: The Reconfiguration of Jewish Urban Property and Ethno-National Political Discourses and Projects in (Post)Socialist Romania, Damiana Gabriela Otoiu; Chapter 9 Forgetting and Remembering: Frankfurt’s Altstadt after the Second World War, Marianne Rodenstein; Chapter 10 1This text is based on ongoing research regarding colonial architecture and urbanism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and informed by a series of fieldtrips to Lubumbashi in the period 2000–2007. It forms a more concise and slightly modified version of a paper that was originally presented at the 1st symposium of the Ghent Africa Platform (GAP) in December 2007 and consequently published in Afrika Focus, 1 (2008): 11–30. I kindly thank the editors of Afrika Focus for their kind permission to republish this text., Johan Lagae; Chapter 11 Epilogue The Fragility of Memory and its Remedy Through Spatial Practices, Tali Hatuka;

Biography

Tovi Fenster, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Haim Yacobi, Ben Gurion University, Israel

'Overall, this volume provides fascinating and insightful essays covering a variety of topics and issues from around the world and utilising a number of theoretical frameworks to analyse specific cities.' Urban Studies