On the ground - bad news, good news

Despite renewal of peace talks, Israel approves plans for hundreds of
residential units in West Bank
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[with map/diagram] Haaretz 8 August by Chaim Levinson -  Some 550 units in
the settlements of *Talmon*, 60 in Alon Shvut and 38 in Kokhav
Yaakov*have been approved, out of a total 878; discussion of some of
the plans had been postponed amid renewal of negotiations with the Palestinians.
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*Video interview: Architects help envision Palestine's landscape after
apartheid*<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/architects-help-envision-palestines-landscape-after-apartheid>
Electronic Intifada 7 Aug by Nora Barrows-Friedman -- An in-depth interview with a former researcher with Decolonizing Architecture<http://www.decolonizing.ps/>was published by Toronto-based writer and interviewer Justin Podur. A collective of architects and artists doing political work on the ground in occupied Palestine, Decolonizing Architecture’s work "combines discourse, spatial intervention, education, collective learning, public  meetings and legal challenges … It proposes the subversion, reuse, profanation and recycling of the existing infrastructure of a colonial occupation," according to its website. In recent years, members of the Decolonizing Architecture collective have worked in the occupied West Bank to reclaim land <http://electronicintifada.net/content/architectural-planning-different-future/8916> and,
envisioning for the future, re-map the land inside and around illegal Israeli settlement colonies< http://electronicintifada.net/tags/settlements> in preparation for a post-apartheid era.palestines-landscape-after-apartheid
to electronicintifada.net<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/architects-help-envision-palestines-landscape-after-apartheid>
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 Facing Al Aqaba, a multi-media installation for Art Prize <http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/938933977/facing-al-aqaba-a-multi-media-installation-for-art>

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