Global City and the Holy City Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity
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<p>"...the power of the book lies in the sincere efforts to deal with the complexity embedded into the intersection of gender with several other components of identity."</p><p>"Considering the great complexity of issues dealt with by the author, the book is very well organized. Each chapter is structured around one clear theme, its sections and subsections are clear-cut and well-rounded; most importantly, it contains a summary of its main points which connect it to the other chapters of the book. This sense of direction is found throughout the book. The book offers many eye-opening examples from both cities, demonstrating how human environmental experience is diversified by gender and beyond it. Altogether Fenster's book is from the social sciences and planning: undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners."</p><p><strong>Orna Blumen, University of Haifa, Israel</strong></p><p><strong>Published March 2005 in <em>Gender, Place and Culture </em>Vol. 12, No1, pp.137-144</strong></p>
The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces in which they live. By deconstructing the meanings of these three notions and analyzing their expression in cognitive temporal maps, The Global City & The Holy City examines the practicalities of incorporating this kind of local embodied knowledge into the professional planning and management of cities in the age of globalization.
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Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Planning, Knowledge and Diversity in the City
2. Planning traditions, globalisation and the discourse around knowledge: History, criticism and change
3. Society and space: Diversity, difference and knowledge in the global city
4. London and Jerusalem: Whose planning, whose power, whose diversity?
Part II: The Local Embodied Knowledge of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment in the Global and the Holy City
5. On comfort
6. On belonging
7. On commitment
8. Gender identity and the local embodied knowledge of comfort, belonging and commitment
Part III: Different Ways of Knowing: Diversity, Knowledge and Cognitive Temporal Maps
9. The images of comfort, belonging and commitment in cognitive temporal mapping
Part IV: Between the ‘Holy’ and the ‘Global’: On Local Embodied Knowledge and Spatial Planning
10. Local knowledge and the planning of the built environment: Lessons in practice
11. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
This book will be of key interest to academics, practitioners and students alike in departments of planning, urban studies, geography, cultural studies and the social sciences.
Tovi Fenster is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. She is the editor of Gender, Planning and Human Rights. She is one of the founders and past chair of `Bimkom’ – Planners for Planning Rights in Israel.
"This very timely exploration of the senses of comfort, belonging, and commitment of citizens of London and Jerusalem expands and challenges debates about what it means to be 'at home' in the city. It also helps the city- and community-building professions to think about how to incorporate local, embodied knowledge in planning processes."
Professor Leonie Sandercock, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
"Tovi Fenster offers a rich exploration of people's feelings about the places of their everyday lives. In focusing on comfort, belonging and commitment she offers a vision for shaping humane and effective urban planning and management in an era challenged by the homogenizing forces of globalization and divisive cultural tensions."
Janice Monk, Professor of Geography, University of Arizona