ABSTRACT

Divided, “mixed”, or ethnically fractured cities are cities which are torn by ethnic and nationalist conflict. 1 The planning and management of such cities is typically characterized by conflicting aspirations presented by different ethnonational groups. This is all the more so in more extreme, or explicit, case where such fractured cities are embedded within a broader framework of ethnonational and territorial conflict (Hepburn, 2004). This paper examines the interaction between urban governance, citizenship and ethnonational politics among Israeli-Palestinian citizens 2 in two Israeli ethnically fractured cities: Haifa and Tel Aviv-Jaffa.