MAKAN Volume 1 - The Right to the City (Spring 2006)

According to French philosopher Henri Lefebvre, “the right to the city” is a call for the restructuring of social, political and economic contexts in cities. This in turn requires a restructuring of power relations as a basic consideration in the creation of the urban space, by transferring power from capital and the state to urban inhabitants. On the basis of this definition there are two principal components of the right to the city: firstly, the right to appropriation, or the right of inhabitants to use the urban space and shape it as they desire. Secondly, the right to participation, or the right of inhabitants to a central role in decision-making with regard to the urban space in which they are living.

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Cover and Table of Contents

Introduction - The Editors

From Rakevet to the Neighborhood of Neve-Shalom: Planning, Difference and the Right to the City - Haim Yacobi

The Right to the City and Gendered Everyday Life - Tovi Fenster

Spatial Violence on Behalf of the Homogeneous “Order” - The Editors

Four Cases of Segregated Spaces - Sharif Hamadeh, Hana Hamdan and Suhad Bishara

Challenging the Prevention of Arab Citizens of Israel from Living on Jewish National Fund Land:

Excerpts from Supreme Court Petition: H.C. 9205/04, Adalah v. The Israel Land Administration, the Minister of Finance and the Jewish National Fund

Excerpts from the Jewish National Fund’s Response to H.C. 9205/04 and H.C. 9010/04