Remembering, forgetting and city builders

218 Pages·2010·5.234 MB·English

by  Tovi Fenster, Haim Yacobi

Remembering, Forgetting
and City Builders

Edited by
Tovi Fenster and Haim Yacobi
RemembeRing, FoRgetting
and City buildeRs
Re-materialising Cultural geography
dr mark boyle, department of geography, university of strathclyde, uK,
Professor donald mitchell, maxwell school, syracuse university, usa and
dr david Pinder, Queen mary university of london, uK
nearly 25 years have elapsed since Peter Jackson’s seminal call to integrate
cultural geography back into the heart of social geography. during this time, a
wealth of research has been published which has improved our understanding of
how culture both plays a part in, and in turn, is shaped by social relations based
on class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, sexuality and so on. in
spite of the achievements of this mountain of scholarship, the task of grounding
culture in its proper social contexts remains in its infancy. this series therefore
seeks to promote the continued significance of exploring the dialectical relations
which exist between culture, social relations and space and place. its overall aim
is to make a contribution to the consolidation, development and promotion of the
ongoing project of re-materialising cultural geography.
Also in the series
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the domestic, the Public and the Politics of sentiment
Gillian Rose
isbn 978 0 7546 7732 1
Cultural Capitals
Revaluing the arts, Remaking urban spaces
Louise C. Johnson
isbn 978 0 7546 4977 9

Critical toponymies
the Contested Politics of Place naming
Edited by Lawrence D. Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho
isbn 978 0 7546 7453 5
Cultural landscapes of Post-socialist Cities
Representation of Powers and needs
Mariusz Czepczynski
isbn 978 0 7546 7022 3
towards safe City Centres?
Remaking the spaces of an old-industrial City
Gesa Helms
isbn 978 0 7546 4804 8
Remembering, Forgetting
and City builders
edited by
tovi FensteR
Tel Aviv University, Israel
and
Haim yaCobi
Ben Gurion University, Israel
© tovi Fenster and Haim yacobi 2010
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Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Remembering, forgetting and city builders. --
(Re-materialising cultural geography)
1. Collective memory and city planning--Case studies.
2. Public spaces--social aspects--Case studies.
i. series ii. Fenster, tovi. iii. yacobi, Haim.
711.1'3-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fenster, tovi.
Remembering, forgetting and city builders / by tovi Fenster and Haim yacobi.
p. cm.
includes index.
isbn 978-1-4094-0667-9 (h bk) -- isbn 978-1-4094-0688-4 (ebk)
1. Human geography--Case studies. 2. urban geography--Case studies. 3. City planning-
-Case studies. 4. geographical perception--Case studies. 5. Collective memory--social
aspects--Case studies. i. yacobi, Haim. ii. title.
gF50.F46 2010
304.2'3--dc22
2010010766
isbn 9781409406679 (hbk)
isbn 9781409406884 (ebk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
introduction 1
Haim Yacobi and Tovi Fenster
1 Remembering Forgotten landscapes: Community gardens
in new york City and the Reconstruction of Cultural diversity 7
Efrat Eizenberg
2 memory, Recognition and the architecture of a diasporic Place:
the Case of netivot, israel 27
Haim Yacobi
3 neighbourhood and belonging: turkish immigrant Women
Constructing the everyday Public space 47
Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy
4 memory, belonging and Resistance: the struggle over
Place among the bedouin-arabs of the naqab/negev 65
Safa Abu-Rabia

5 one Place – different memories: the Case of yaad and miaar 85
Tovi Fenster
6 the Reconstructed City as Rhetorical space:
the Case of volgograd 107
Elena Trubina
7 seoul: City, identity and the Construction of the Past 121
Guy Podoler
8 “We shouldn’t sell our Country!”: The Reconfiguration of Jewish
urban Property and ethno-national Political discourses and
Projects in (Post)socialist Romania 141
Damiana Gabriela Otoiu
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9 Forgetting and Remembering: Frankfurt’s Altstadt after the
second World War 159
Marianne Rodenstein
10 From “Patrimoine Partagé” to “Whose Heritage”? Critical
Reflections on Colonial Built Heritage in the City of
lubumbashi, democratic Republic of the Congo 175
Johan Lagae
epilogue 193
Tali Hatuka
Index 201
list of Figures
1.1 mott Haven garden, south bronx 7
1.2 Personalizers of individual plots 14
1.3 murals 15
1.4 the mandala at 6&b community garden, manhattan 18
1.5 9 st. community garden and park, east village, manhattan 20
1.6 Farm garden, east new york Historic garden, brooklyn 21
1.7 eclectic culture gardens 23
2.1 a placard with the logo of the baba sali institutions at the
entrance to netivot 35
2.2 Pilgrims on the Hillulah day of commemorating the baba sali’s death 36
2.3 the market of religious goods, food and clothing near
netivot’s cemetery 38
2.4 one of the new educational institutions of the baba sali Foundation 39
3.1 deppenbroek, enschede 51
3.2 Wesselerbrink, enschede 51
3.3 Wesselerbrink, enschede 52
6.1 girls taking part in the daily honour guard ceremony at the
eternal Fire memorial 114

8.1 oRt building – bucharest, circa 1950 146
8.2 Charles Jordan in bucharest, 1967 148
9.1 the Altstadt (old city) of Frankfurt, 1929 159
9.2 the Altstadt with Römer (town Hall) and Paulskirche
(right), 1945 162
9.3 the new Altstadt, healthy and democratic, in the 1950s 166
9.4 Results of the competition 1979/80: a front of half-timbered
buildings on Römerberg square with the post-modern
Kulturschirn behind 168
9.5 technisches Rathaus between Römer and cathedral, 2008 169
10.1 demolished 1920s building in the city centre of lubumbashi 179
10.2 theatre building, lubumbashi, arch. yenga, 1953–56 182
10.3 original interior view of the theatre building 183
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10.4 mural frescoes in the stairwells of the theatre building,
nowadays disappeared 184
10.5 Jewish cemetery, lubumbashi 187
10.6 synagogue, lubumbashi, arch. Raymond Cloquet, 1929 189
list of Contributors
Safa Abu-Rabia is a Palestinian-bedouin citizen of israel, an anthropologist and
doctoral student at the ben gurion university of the negev, in the department of
interdisciplinary studies. she is currently completing a study of the construction of
historical discourse by bedouin-arab women of the 1948 generation in the negev.
Her research interests include the construction of identity and memory among
bedouin arabs in the negev in light of the nakba (1948 Palestinian catastrophe),
arab feminism, and race and racism within the context of gender in gendered
bedouin-arab society.
Efrat Eizenberg received her Phd in environmental Psychology from the City
university of new york. she is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of
geography and Human environment at tel aviv university. Her interests are the
politics of space, collective action and resistance, and environmental justice.
Tovi Fenster is the Head of the Planning for the environment with Communities
(PeC) lab at the department of geography and Human environment, tel
aviv university. she has been the Head of nCJW Women and gender studies
Programme (2007–2009). she publishes articles and book chapters on ethnicity,
citizenship and gender in planning and development. she is the editor of Gender,
Planning and Human Rights (1999, Routledge) and the author of The Global
City and the Holy City: Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity (2004,
Pearson). She is one of the founders and the first Chair of Bimkom – Planners for

Planning Rights in israel.
Tali Hatuka is an architect, urban designer and author, currently based in the
department of geography and Human environment at tel aviv university.
Hatuka works primarily on social, planning and architectural issues, focusing
on the relationships between urban renewal, violence and life in contemporary
society. she is co-editor of Architectural Culture: Place, Representation, Body
(2005, Hebrew edition) and a recent book entitled Violent Acts and Urban Space in
Contemporary Tel Aviv (university of texas Press, 2010; Resling, 2008) addresses
the way violent acts over the past decades have profoundly altered civil rituals,
cultural identity and the meaning of place in contemporary cities.
Johan Lagae is an associate Professor of nineteenth and twentieth Century
architectural History at ghent university. He holds a Phd on colonial
architecture in the former belgian Congo (2002) and currently conducts research