Seeing the city. Forward some social history of Palestinian Cities, betwwen world and national feeling (1900-2002)
This research belong to the field of urban history. It concern an analysis of the production of urban space in Palestine revendicated as a patriotic and nationalist object, influenced by the western and colonial presence. The research focuses on the dynamics of power, space and knowledge, regarding through the analysis of professionnal and urban cultures, crossing the production of the space. The first part concern the period of the British Mandate (1920-1948) focused on the transfert of european urban knowledge and models, western and urban entreprenariat in the West part of Territory. The second part concern the militarisation of the space and urban knowledges in the context of post war and israeli occupation (1948-19994) and The third part examines the short period of "pacification" and international peace process (1994-2002) and describe the urbanisation of the capital, urban renewal and news urban culturs, parodoxes of the reconstruction, at the cross-crossing of nationalism and universal influences.