Chapter 4. In the Name of Belonging Developing Sheikh Radwan for the Refugees in Gaza City, 1967-1982 (original) (raw)
This chapter discusses the active mediating role of the camp-city's relationship in the production of development discourse. Planned and constructed by the Israeli Public Works Department after the 1967 war, the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood was designated a permanent housing solution for Palestinian refugees from the A-Shati camp. Politically, the construction of the neighbourhood served the Israeli regime in its fight against the right of return, while allowing it to deploy the discourse of progress and urban improvement. The neighbourhood's construction was part of a larger colonial regional plan to replace Gaza as the port city and the commercial hub of the area. By referring to architecture as cultural production and attending to the forms of everyday life in the context of development, Gaza is investigated here as an arena where contradictory agendas of 'professional knowledge' in architecture and urban planning, and modernist social engineering ideas clash.
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