Mar 28, 2008
On Wednesday March 26, we went driving through and checking out the peri-urban condition in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. We drove around in the area between the Alfornelos and Odivelas subway stations. Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portuguese: Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, or AML) is a territorial zone that includes 18 municipalities (concelhos) in Portugal. The smaller Grande Lisboa (Greater Lisbon) area is a subregion of the NUTS II Lisbon ...
Mar 15, 2008
On Thursday March 6, we went on a field trip to Be'er Sheva (Beersheba), the largest city in the Negev Desert. In preparation for our research on desert cities we couldn't miss this one, 'the Capital of the Negev'. Be'er Sheva is the sixth largest city in Israel and has a population of approximately 200,000. The field trip was organized by architect Yuval Yasky, from the City/State Unit ...
Mar 7, 2008
moving from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, we crossed the ‘concrete chainsaw’ as the French-Israeli director Simone Bitton calls the West Bank Wall in her documentary film Mur. Experiencing this separation and division in space, time and of people through walls and checkpoints, it is impossible to remain uncritical. A last post on Bethlehem.
Mar 5, 2008
movingcities spend two days in Bethlehem, in the residency studio of Alessandro Petti and Sandi Helal. Both have been working in the past on Stateless Nation and are now curating together with Eyal Weizman a project entitled Decolonizing Architecture. More news on this project in the coming days. For now, a first series of pictures from behind the West Bank Wall.
