The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces in which they live. By deconstructing the meanings of these three notions and analyzing their expression in cognitive temporal maps, The Global City & The Holy City examines the practicalities of incorporating this kind of local embodied knowledge into the professional planning and management of cities in the age of globalization.

"This very timely exploration of the senses of comfort, belonging, and commitment of citizens of London and Jerusalem expands and challenges debates about what it means to be 'at home' in the city. It also helps the city- and community-building professions to think about how to incorporate local, embodied knowledge in planning processes."Professor Leonie Sandercock, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia"Tovi Fenster offers a rich exploration of people's feelings about the places of their everyday lives. In focusing on comfort, belonging and commitment she of
Reviews

"...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, Israel

Published March 2005 in Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 12, No1, pp.137-144

Book Information
ISBN 9780582356603
Author Tovi Fenster
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Prentice-Hall
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g