Making Bricks Without Straw:The Jerusalem Municipality’s New Planning Policy for East Jerusalem
In a new document, prepared as a response to Mayor Nir Barkat “new planning policy” for East Jerusalem say Bimkom and Ir Amim: 'The statements of Israeli officials regarding plans for Palestinian construction in East Jerusalem are, in most cases, lip service designed to push local and international reviews and "white" such Israeli construction as Jonathan House for the settlers'
The Planning Rights Project aims to advance equality and social justice in the fields of planning and development, and seeks to challenge the existing reality in order to bring about the development of a more democratic, open and transparent planning system – a system that promotes distributive justice with regard to land and other public resources, that meets the special needs of different communities, and that respects the rights of all sections of the population.
