ABSTRACT
Comfort for Eitan is associated with control of time and space – the time it takes him to move from one place to another in his close environment. Obviously, a sense of comfort is a subjective feeling. People of different identities define and express comfort in different ways. And yet one of the interesting outcomes of this project is how similar the notion of comfort can become for people of different identities who live in the two cities. The aim of the chapter is therefore to explore both the commonalities and the differences of comfort, both its subjective-personal and objective-universal connotations, and from that to draw some basic understandings of the notion: ‘the right to comfort in the global city’ which was established in Chapter 3. Questions such as, what does this right to comfort include? And, are its components privately based or are they connected to the wider notion of ‘the right to the city’ will be discussed in the chapter.
