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This chapter addresses the urban transformations of three cities in late Ottoman Palestine (late nineteenth and early twentieth century), which took place in the context of European capitulations, indigenous reform and war. The ‘triadic modernity’ refers to the regional network that linked the three urban centres of Jaffa, the port city; Jerusalem, the provincial capital; and Beersheba, the new frontier garrison town. It aims to examine the emergence of a new public sphere in those cities, from an earlier communitarian fabric.
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Tamari, S. (2013). Urban Planning and the Remaking of the Public Sphere in Ottoman Palestine. In: Pullan, W., Baillie, B. (eds) Locating Urban Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316882_10
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