Abstract
During the past century, the city of Jerusalem expanded from 1 km2 (the walled city) to reach more than 126 km2 in 2005 and 164 km2 recently. The city presents an open book in urban planning practice, starting with the Ottoman time through the British Mandate (i.e. British rule in Palestine from 1917 to 1948, starting after the defeat of Ottoman rule in the area) and ending with the Israeli occupation. Planners during different regimes added several layers to the original fabric in attempts to transform the city into a ‘modern’ mosaic/collage. In this study, historical plans were analysed and sequential plans were gathered and stratified in order to show how the urban context was deformed and fragmented through unilateral planning.
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