Abstract:
Building on Henri Lefebvre’s work on the role of imagination in crafting socially just urban conditions and “rights to the
city,” this paper asks whether new ideas and urban practices can be produced through the use of experimental visioning
techniques. Using empirical evidence drawn from an ideas competition for Jerusalem, one of the world’s most intractable
conflict cities, the paper considers the extent to which the global call to create alternative visions for a just, peaceful,
and sustainable Jerusalem resulted in new strategies considered fundamentally different from those routinely deployed in
conventional planning practice, how and why.
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