Sustainable Urban Development in the State of Palestine: An Opportunity Interrupted

By: Joan Clos

My visit to the State of Palestine comes at a crucial moment for global development. In the coming weeks, world leaders will adopt the Post-2015 Universal Agenda...

MDGs to SDGs

By: Roberto Valent

Across the globe, world leaders have adopted the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are essentially an agreed-upon vision to put people and the planet on a sustainable path...

United Nations Development Programme Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People

By: Courtesy of UNDP/PAPP

UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that...

Area C of the West Bank: Strategic Importance and Development Prospects

By: Mohammad Mustafa

The peace process that began in the early 1990s purportedly aimed at reaching a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace settlement through a permanent status agreement that would...

International Experts Call for Fundamental Changes in Israel’s Approach to Planning and Development in Area C

By: Cliff Hague

The Israeli Civil Administration’s (ICA) practice of planning in Area C of the occupied West Bank...

UN-Habitat Palestine Programme

By: Courtesy of UN-Habitat Palestine Programme

UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable villages, towns, and cities and the achievement of adequate shelter for all...

National Strategies for Area C

By: Courtesy of UNDP/PAPP

Because Area C is critical to Palestinian national development, sovereignty, and sustainability, the framework on which the Palestinian agenda and the National Development Plan...

Israel’s War of Construction

By: Ariel Sophia Bardi

The documentary-propaganda film Homecoming was released just one year after the events of the Nakba, during which anywhere from 400 to 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Israeli forces...

Ministry of Local Government Engagement in Area C

By: TWIP Collective

We met Dr. Tawfiq Bdeiri, Deputy Assistant for Planning and Engineering Affairs at the Ministry of Local Government, in his office in Ramallah, shortly prior to taking this issue of This Week in Palestine to print...

UN-Habitat’s Spatial Planning Interventions in Area C of the West Bank

By: Courtesy of UN-Habitat Palestine Programme

Area C of the West Bank, as it stands today (sixty percent of the West Bank that fall under full Israeli control), creates a state of gradual...

The Political Economy of Area C

By: Courtesy of UNDP/PAPP

Area C - as commonly referred to in the post-Oslo era, comprises an approximate sixty-one percent of the West Bank.1 Through the 1995 Interim Agreement between Israel...

Outline Planning in Area C: An Alternative Approach

By: Wafa Butmeh and Jihad Rabayaa

The planning and building crisis in Area C dates back to the early 1970s, when shortly after the 1967 war, the Israeli authorities abolished all Local Planning Committees, essentially the Palestinian village...

Archeological Heritage in Area C

By: Hamdan Taha

Being a meeting place for civilizations and a cultural bridge between the East and the West, Palestine has played an important role in human history. Earliest archeological evidence...

Stories From the Field

By: Courtesy of UNDP/PAPP

Abu Azzam is a Palestinian farmer from Jayyous village in the Qalqilya governorate, a village near the western border of the West Bank. Residents in the area rely on farming...

The Political Agency of Fallahin Architecture:

Unravelling the Conflict of Susiya

By: Hania Halabi

In the dusty hilly terrain to the south of Hebron, on dry bedrock ground where shrubs can barely find a way to grow, stands a small house built from concrete blocks...

Placemaking in the West Bank in Area C

By: Asma Ibrahim and Pren Domgjoni

Placemaking is an approach to urban design that intends to ensure the creation of valuable qualities within shared spaces based on a “bottom-to-top approach.” Most of the time...

On the Edge

By: Elias and Yousef Anastas

The edge is where potentialities are revealed: living on the edge, one has to put into motion everything possible in order to persevere...

Jerusalem Suburbs: Lost and Forgotten?

By: Rasha Alyatim

Oh, I am sure you know about Areas A, B, and C. I do not doubt you know of the daily applications of this labeling. Who doesn’t know about Qalandia checkpoint? I am quite positive you know the shortcut, better known as Kassarat...

THE C-WORD

By: Karim Kattan

Although everyone in Palestine fancies himself a political analyst, I would not dare to try to define Area C. Such a definition is a job for someone specializing in the arcana of the Oslo Accords...

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Area C embodies Palestine: terraced hills with olive groves where shepherds wander with their flocks and ghazal feed on misty mornings; striking wadis where foxes and mountain goats... more

Embodiment of Injustice

Social media was full of posts ridiculing Netanyahu for accusing the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (in office from 1921 until 1937) of persuading Adolf Hitler to “burn the Jews.ˮ Examples of... more

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Sustainable Urban Development in the State of Palestine: An Opportunity Interrupted

MDGs to SDGs

United Nations Development Programme Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People

Area C of the West Bank: Strategic Importance and Development Prospects

International Experts Call for Fundamental Changes in Israel’s Approach to Planning and Development in Area C

UN-Habitat Palestine Programme

National Strategies for Area C

Israel’s War of Construction

Ministry of Local Government Engagement in Area C

UN-Habitat’s Spatial Planning Interventions in Area C of the West Bank

The Political Economy of Area C

Outline Planning in Area C: An Alternative Approach

Archeological Heritage in Area C

Stories From the Field

The Political Agency of Fallahin Architecture:

Placemaking in the West Bank in Area C

On the Edge

Jerusalem Suburbs: Lost and Forgotten?

THE C-WORD

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Embodiment of Injustice

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