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Reinventing planned cities

Rethinking '50s era ‘new towns’
Despite its challenging existing conditions, Kiryat Gat can achieve a balanced urban metabolism. This can be achieved through strategic planning around industry and production, where all of the excess outputs from one industry would be utilized as inputs for another.
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Despite its challenging existing conditions, Kiryat Gat can achieve a balanced urban metabolism. This can be achieved through strategic planning around industry and production, where all of the excess outputs from one industry would be utilized as inputs for another.
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Image: MIT/TAU Kiryat Gat Studio

Students from the School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) traveled to Israel in January for a 10-day collaborative workshop with Tel Aviv University's Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design (TAU LCUD).

The workshop was one part of a semester-long studio, under the direction of SA+P’s Eran Ben-Joseph and TAU’s Tali Hatuka, focusing on Kiryat Gat, a mid-sized town in the south of Israel built in the 1950s. The city was chosen as a ‘laboratory’ for re-designing outmoded planned towns of that era with the aim of creating new planning models that could reshape the future of similar cities across the world.

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