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Metro Leisure Areas - Fall 2007
City/State continues its cooperation with the Hebrew university and Shammay Assif, head of the planning department in the interior ministry to deal with the planning of metropolitan parks located in the central, most densely populated areas in Israel. “Metropolitan parks” are newly defined entities aimed at reservation of existing large scale open spaces in between the expanding urban areas. These parks include mixed development of intensive housing and public program as well as sports and leisure areas and open green spaces. The students will deal with the challenge of defining these areas for the first time in terms of possible interfaces between leisure and intense development, public and private interests and contradicting programs. The thematic layers that will be dealt in the first semester: 1.Landscape: Flora-Fauna, environment: Native plants and animals habitats; topography; geology; how to create new landscape through planning? 2.Policies. National plans; regional plans; city plans, local plans, landuse. How to utilize plans for specific aims? 3.Infrastructure: roads, water, public transport, national infrastructure: what are the possible implications of manipulations of infrastructures? 4.Programs and economy. Economical models, large programs, military, agricultural, institutional and leisure uses. How to build a large scale program according to the desired effect?

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