Planning and architecture of modern Beersheba: between the celestial and infernal
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In Invisible Cities , Italo Calvino describes Beersheba as a city with two projections: the celestial city that its inhabitants honor, and the infernal one – the receptacle of everything they renounce. In contrast to the other cities in the book, terrestrial Beersheba is real, but like its literary counterpart, it also has two projections – celestial and infernal. This article addresses these projections as articulated in the planning of the city and its neighborhoods, and particularly in its public buildings. In a similar manner to Calvino, it is argued that precisely what its inhabitants deem infernal inheres the celestial aspect as well.
Source: Miscellanea Geographica
Author: Hadas Shadar
Institution: University of Haifa
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403168469