Alex Fyfe: Jerusalem Urban Development
In projecting information on when different parts of Jerusalem were developed onto a contemporary satellite image of the city, it is possible to visualise the physical developments of the city (and, in the next part of this Scalar path, these physical differences will be compared to political developments). The above map draws our attention to two facts about the city of Jerusalem: the first is that the vast majority of the city is constructed in the 20th century; only a small part of the city pre-dates 1900. The second is that the city developed in reasonably distinct phases: first the Old City, then the area to the north-west of the Old City, then the area to the south-west, then the area to the south-east - in other words, the majority of modern-day western Jerusalem was built up under the British Mandate for Palestine, whilst some of the main areas of modern-day eastern Jerusalem were built up when that part of the city was under Jordanian control. These development phases reflect changes in the social, political and demographic make-up of Jerusalem, as will be seen in the next Story Map. The source from which the above slide-map projections were taken is a study by the Israeli Ministry of Labour, the full version of which is provided below.