ABSTRACT
Since the end of World War II, the social and political geography of Jerusalem has shifted fundamentally several times. The multicultural mosaic under the 1920-1948 British Mandate was transformed into a two-sided physical partitioning of the city as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. This chapter focuses on the spatial and physical trajectories of change in the Jerusalem urban region during the period 1994 to 2016, a period of repeated and unsuccessful attempts at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Among the major initiatives were: the Oslo Accords (1993–1995), Camp David Summit (and subsequent 'parameters') (2000), Taba Summit (2001), Geneva Initiative (2003), and the Annapolis Conference (2007). According to Peace Now, in 1992, just ahead of the first Oslo Accord, Jewish settlements built on expropriated land in areas of Jerusalem unilaterally annexed by Israel in 1967 were home to 125,800 Jewish residents.
