Urban Displaceability Project

The "Urban Displaceability project" examines from different angles the growing threats to the right to the city, focusing housing, land, rights to services, mobility, community, resources and political participation. The research develops a new theoretical vocabulary around the issues of displacement and displaceability, drawing a range of global cities, while examining in depth the three metropolises in Israel - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba. The 11 co-researchers examine diverse issues such as public and private housing, ownership versus renting, renewal versus suburbia, in a wide variety of cases. These include the struggle for synagogues control in development towns, public housing in Southern Jaffa, the middle-class displacement Givatayim, the impact of 'umbrella agreements'; exclusion of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from urban planning, and turning most of the Bedouins in the south into trespassers under constant threat of displacement.