ABSTRACT
For seven years, between 1966 and 1973, Arieh Sharon worked on the masterplan for Jerusalem, initially as a supervisor and then as a head architect (along with his son, the architect Eldar Sharon, and David Anatol Brutzkus). The plan involved a detailed examination of several areas in the Old City and in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem; the creation of plazas at the gates of the Old City; new construction in the Old City's Jewish Quarter; the reconstruction of religious buildings in the Old City; the treatment of the unbuilt strip adjacent to the Old City walls; the development of Mount Scopus (which had been an Israeli enclave under Jordanian rule until the 1967 war); the allocation of land for national parks; and more. The work of Sharon, Sharon and Brutzkus culminated in the A’In Mem 9 Masterplan (including maps of the Old City and East Jerusalem). This chapter analyzes and contextualizes their masterplan as a strategy that tried to maintain Jerusalem's built heritage while at the same time modernizing it.
