ABSTRACT
This chapter examines planning conception that was realized in Arad, and describes some of the experiments tried out during the construction of the town. Arad is one of the new towns that were built in Israel in pursuance of the policy of population dispersal and settlement of frontier regions. More than 30 such towns have been built but Arad differs from the rest as regards the character of its surrounding region, its planning, its buildings, and the basis of its economy and it represents a new conception of urban development in a desert region. Arad is therefore an interesting subject for a case study of an attempt to create an urban center in the desert, this being a problem common to Israel and to many developing countries.
