Between the Individual and the Community: Residential Patterns of the Haredi Population in Jerusalem.

• Autores: Nurit Alfasi, Shlomit Flint Ashery, Itzhak Benenson
• Localización: International journal of urban and regional research, ISSN 0309-1317, Vol. 37, Nº. 6, 2013, págs. 2152-2176
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines how different levels of internal organization are reflected in the residential patterns of different population groups. In this case, the Haredi community comprises sects and sub-sects, whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The residential preferences of Haredi individuals are strongly influenced by the need to live among 'friends' - that is, other members of the same sub-sect. This article explores the dynamics of residential patterns in two of Jerusalem's Haredi neighbourhoods: Ramat Shlomo, a new neighbourhood on the urban periphery, and Sanhedria, an old yet attractive inner-city neighbourhood. We reveal two segregation mechanisms: the first is top-down determination of residence, found in relatively new neighbourhoods that are planned, built and populated with the intense involvement of community leaders; the second is the bottom-up emergence of residential patterns typical of inner-city neighbourhoods that have gradually developed over time.