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Beer Sheva's Old City Battles Shopping Malls

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Will Rihanna perform on Tel Aviv’s old garbage dump?

Tel Aviv's garbage dumped to be turned into a stadium to listen to stars like Rihanna and Beyonce.

Israel Ditches Historic Land Administration

Homeowners in Israel can take title to the land under their houses and apartments after the Knesset voted in early August to privatize the...

Jordanian Water Conservation Campaign Going Straight to the Private Home in Amman

Yalla Nwaffer Mai, or Let's Save Water is a water conservation campaign launched in July by the Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna), HSBC Bank, and...

Where Does Oil REALLY Come From?

Unlike popular belief, oil does not come from the remains of dinosaurs, rather from the silica based life-form called diatoms. Diatoms live in the...

Globe Ecological Hub Recently Proposed for Israeli City of Modiin

Israeli architect Zvika Tamari (of TeaM Architects) recently proposed a conceptual plan for a Globe Ecological Hub in Modiin, a city in the center...

A New New Central Bus Station for Tel Aviv?

"I used to get off at the old bus station, and to me it was like another country..." goes the Tipex song (free translation...

Yacobi Plumbs Israel's Built Environment in 'Constructing a Sense of Place'

In Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Ashgate, 2004), architect and planner Haim Yacobi has compiled a fascinating collection of...

East Jerusalem Getting First Mall

You heard it here when Jenin got a mall-ish furniture superstore. Now East Jerusalem is also joining the trend.  According to Danny Rubinstein at...

Israel's Public Housing Blocks to Get Solar Roofs

Solar panels at a testing site in Abu Dhabi. (photo by Jesse Fox) According to a report published this week in Globes, Israel's public housing...

Passive cooling for Syria’s beehive houses

Way before there were electronic ways to condition our temperatures, cooling methods were built into the architecture of traditional Middle Eastern homes.  Such as the beehive homes found in Syria.

Are Suburbs Making Israeli Kids Fat?

A study released last week shows that more than one in five Israeli schoolchildren is overweight. According to Haaretz, the towns Nahariya (37%), Bat...

Green Building Takes Off in Turkey

The global ecologically friendly building trend is taking hold in Turkey as well, according to the English-language daily Hurriyet News and Economic Review. We've covered...

Israeli Land Reform Takes a Beating, But Not Dead

Last week, a scowling Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (left, photo from Ynet) sat in parliament while his land reform took a beating. Key...

City Waste Dubai Event Sets To Manage Middle East Garbage

City Waste is an inaugural four-day event that will take place from 11-14 October 2009. The Middle East's rapid growth over the past years...

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