Cultural Strategy for the City Center of Jerusalem

as a Platform for its Revival

DISS IS CULTURE Strategy- Management- Turnaround- Fundraising

In Cooperation with

TA Planners Ltd, Architect Arie Kutz

DISS IS CULTURE DIRECTORS:

Nava Dissentshik:Assistant to the Mayor of Tel Aviv during its “cultural revolution”: A founder of the New Israeli Opera and TAPAC; artists studios; bomb shelters as studios. General Manager TAPAC; member of the National Lottery Culture Council. Advisor to the Minister of Culture

Ronnie Dissentshik: MBA- expert on strategy and turnaround. Business Consultant until appointed to manage the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Performed turn around there and latter at the Israeli Chamber Orchestra and now Gutman Museum of Art.

Culture & Economic Develop.

The direct link between culture and economic development as a discipline is a phenomenon of the last 30 years. (Bilbao Birmingham Bogota).

A most interesting fact is that the leading cities

such as NY, London, Berlin are the ones with the most massive investment. (new Moma, Tate Modern, Berguin collection).

The existence of two important industries depend on cultural assets: tourism and Hi Tech.

What Is Culture

• Defined very Broadly• Elite Cultural Institutions• Education• Public Spaces• “Street Time”: shopping and coffee shops

The Model

• Every City has Assets - Cultural, Educational and Environmental.Are they used or abused? Are they appreciated or neglected?

• The uniqueness of the model is by integrating culture with physical development of the city and by defining culture as more than cultural institutions.

• We start by stock taking

• We shall than take a bird’s eye view of the city to determine the tracks along which the cultural life of the city must be developed: that is, how people shall move between clusters of culture.

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• Making the most of what is already there saves a lot of money and helps recover local pride.

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Civic CenterResidential

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New developments far away from center (New developments far away from center (National National Politics)Politics)

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Center left with low commerce and declining Center left with low commerce and declining infrastructure infrastructure

Departure of culture and failure to connect between Departure of culture and failure to connect between west and east Jerusalemwest and east Jerusalem

Add Intifada – Palestinian uprising (Add Intifada – Palestinian uprising (tourismtourism) and ) and welfare budget cuts (welfare budget cuts (poor citypoor city).).

PAC

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Jaffa Rd.Independence ParkTicho Museum ParkCity Hall CompoundNablus Gate

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Upgrading the CC to PAC and creating the most advanced and largest music dance and opera hall in the country

Add a theater hall (optional)

Lower the road and connect the transportation center to Pac by a large urban plaza

Transportation center: CBS; light train; fast train from Tel Aviv; underground parking

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Return Bezalel Art & Design Academy to its original location and merge it with the theater studio and the film school to create National Academy of ArtLower the road and create new square which will in turn create a pedestrian route from the academy to Independence Park and Jaffa Road.The campus will be open (NYU in Washington SQ).The students will become again an integral part of the city center life.

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People MoverThe people mover aims at two

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Cancel the difficulties caused by the topographical conditions between the Art Academy and TC.

It will also serve as a tourist route for the new architecture and Israel power base.

What are we going to achieve?

•Top cultural & educational inst.•Major improvement of public and pedestrian spaces•Green System•New, richer options for tourism

This will lead to better business environment and return of creative and well to do population.