City of Collision presents a vivid picture of a city in a permanent state of destruction and reinvention, hostage to political planning, collective fear and physical and mental walls but also strategies of resilience, individual exchange and transgression. Thirty new essays by leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international architects, artists, sociologists and political commentators open up different perspectives on the complex and ambivalent urban reality of contemporary Jerusalem. City of Collision also features specially commissioned photographs by Bas Princen and Polly Braden and is illustrated with over forty new detailed thematic maps.
