Dwelling on the Green Line

Gabriel Schwake is an architect, urban designer and researcher. He is a Lecturer at the Sheffield School of Architecture, at the University of Sheffield, and co-director of Studio Sabra. Gabriel's work focuses on the issues of identities, conflicts, and neoliberalism, as well as the influences of nation-building and privatisation on the process of spatial production.

• PREFACE; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BACKGROUND; 3. [Neo]RURALISATION & THE COMMUNITY SETTLEMENT; 4. GENTRIFICATION & THE SUBURBAN SETTLEMENT; 5. MASS-SUBURBANISATION & THE STARS SETTLEMENT; 6. FINANCIALISATION & HARISH CITY; 7. CONCLUSIONS.

'Dwelling on the Green Line takes us for a gripping ride along the Trans-Israel Highway running in parallel to the Green-Line and the West-Bank Separation Wall. By connecting between the dots of the Israeli settlements on both sides of these three lines – the highway, the wall, and Israel's official border – Gabriel Schwake reveals how the privatisation of housing development facilitates Israel's ongoing colonial project.' Dr Irit Katz, University of Cambridge