ABSTRACT
Since 1967, the West Bank has been occupied by Israel and that country has implemented changes to the landscape of authority that have diminished the rights of the indigenous Palestinians to plan or develop in their communities. This chapter explores a UN-sponsored community design placemaking project that sought to give 14 village communities entry-level experience of making self-determined changes in their shared surroundings. It finds that, with some qualifications, it helped communities and professionals to work together and unlock the resources, formal and informal, that can get things happening that otherwise wouldn’t happen.
