Israel Affairs· 2026Q1
Urban regeneration through a genealogy of infrastructural deprivation in Tel Aviv: insights from the daily press
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Newspaper archives reveal close to eight decades of infrastructural neglect in Tel Aviv's Givat Amal neighborhood, driven by urban renewal plans.
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- Analyzes 370 newspaper articles spanning 1930s-2020s concerning Tel Aviv's Givat Amal neighborhood.
- Documents nearly 80 years of infrastructural neglect by municipal authorities.
- Links neglect to urban renewal policies and the creation of urban informality.
- Examines the press as a medium for understanding top-down planning and community responses.
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Abstract
This article intersects seemingly oxymoronic fields in urban studies scholarship, that is, urban regeneration plans and the politics of infrastructure manifest as infrastructural deprivation. Using the case of Givat Amal, a forcibly evicted neighbourhood in Tel Aviv, the article traces close to eight decades of infrastructural neglect by municipal authorities in the name of urban renewal. While its retrospective analysis scrutinises a variety of primary sources, it foregrounds a corpus of 370 newspaper articles (1930s–2020s) that constitutes a crucial medium for understanding both the top-down process of creating urban informality and the bottom-up community’s responses and lived memories.
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