Site Location/Context

Below is a partial map of municipal Jerusalem with the Old City towards the bottom. The dotted line denotes the 1949 Armistice Line or Green Line establishing the international border between Jordanian East Jerusalem and Israeli West Jerusalem that existed until 1967. Between the dotted lines were demilitarized zones also known as no-man's-lands. To this day, pockets of undeveloped land and surface parking lots testify to what still remains a de facto border between Arab and Jewish neighborhoods. These pieces of land north of the Old City are remarkable considering the valuable, densely built up real estate that surrounds them.

The proposed site for this urban civic space is marked in dark green
and has a footprint of 200,000 square feet (4.59 acres).