eprintid: 10049972
rev_number: 29
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/04/99/72
datestamp: 2018-06-18 14:54:30
lastmod: 2024-02-05 08:10:13
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Yacobi, Haim
creators_name: Misgav, Chen
title: The Geo-biographies of Spatial Knowledge: Regional Planning from Israel to Sierra Leone and Back
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F32
keywords: Israeli planning, Regional planning, Spatial knowledge, Geo-biographies
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: This article examines the flow of spatial knowledge in different locations and territorial scales, focusing on the geographies of regional planning and its transplantation in the work of two Israeli planners, Arie and Ursula Oelsner. We argue that too often, researchers focus on the movement of spatial knowledge from Western countries to developing countries. We shed light on alternative ways in which this traffic follows different models, that are related to specific political and national constellations. Based on historical study and a thick description of two projects in Israel and Africa planned by these two Israeli planners, we show that spatial knowledge is not only the generator of discourse and of the professional community partaking in it, but also traverses space, crossing national borders and geographies. This dynamic, we suggest, has a politics of its own, as part of its movement and development within the global space, particularly in the movement between first and third worlds.
date: 2019-10
date_type: published
publisher: Springer Verlag
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9924-x
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1561148
doi: 10.1007/s10708-018-9924-x
lyricists_name: Yacobi, Haim
lyricists_id: HYACO89
actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie
actors_id: MDDEW97
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: GeoJournal
volume: 84
pagerange: 1383-1401
issn: 0343-2521
citation:        Yacobi, Haim;    Misgav, Chen;      (2019)    The Geo-biographies of Spatial Knowledge: Regional Planning from Israel to Sierra Leone and Back.                   GeoJournal , 84    pp. 1383-1401.    10.1007/s10708-018-9924-x <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-018-9924-x>.       Green open access   
 
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