Urban Political Podcast · Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland

80 - Spatial Planning in Israel/Palestine and the Gaza War

·1 hr 29 min·4 clips

As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, there are 1,170 towns where I cannot live by law

Two scholars, Oren Yeftachel and Orwa Svetat, examine the Israel-Palestine conflict through the lens of urban planning, land rights, and settler colonialism. They trace how legal frameworks from the 1492 Doctrine of Discovery to modern Israeli property laws have institutionalized spatial exclusion, and discuss how apartheid-like systems manifest through acceptance committees, zoning, and differential citizenship across Israeli territory.

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A grave, measured discussion of land, planning, and Gaza's political future.

Urban Political treats the Israel-Palestine conflict as a land and planning story, not just a military one. It links the historical background to the Gaza war, the Negev, and the harder question of what any end state would mean for redevelopment.

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You want a serious conversation about Gaza where land, power, and planning stay at the center.

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