Global City and the Holy City

"...the power of the book lies in the sincere efforts to deal with the complexity embedded into the intersection of gender with several other components of identity.""Considering the great complexity of issues dealt with by the author, the book is very well organized. Each chapter is structured around one clear theme, its sections and subsections are clear-cut and well-rounded; most importantly, it contains a summary of its main points which connect it to the other chapters of the book. This sense of direction is found throughout the book. The book offers many eye-opening examples from both cities, demonstrating how human environmental experience is diversified by gender and beyond it. Altogether Fenster's book is from the social sciences and planning: undergraduate and graduate students, as well as practitioners."Orna Blumen, University of Haifa, IsraelPublished March 2005 in Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 12, No1, pp.137-144

• List of figuresList of tablesPreface1. IntroductionPart I: Planning, Knowledge and Diversity in the City2. Planning traditions, globalisation and the discourse around knowledge: History, criticism and change3. Society and space: Diversity, difference and knowledge in the global city4. London and Jerusalem: Whose planning, whose power, whose diversity?Part II: The Local Embodied Knowledge of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment in the Global and the Holy City5. On comfort6. On belonging7. On commitment8. Gender identity and the local embodied knowledge of comfort, belonging and commitmentPart III: Different Ways of Knowing: Diversity, Knowledge and Cognitive Temporal Maps9. The images of comfort, belonging and commitment in cognitive temporal mappingPart IV: Between the ‘Holy’ and the ‘Global’: On Local Embodied Knowledge and Spatial Planning10. Local knowledge and the planning of the built environment: Lessons in practice11. ConclusionBibliographyIndex