This article aims at providing a review of various streams of literature dealing with the spatial fragmentation of cities. In the last two decades many different contributions emphasized the growing fragmentation of the urban environment; the idea of “divided city” covers a multiplicity of approaches, methodologies and field of research. Still, the “divided city” literature tends to elevate a small number of cities to paradigmatic examples and to focus on abstract categories based on single factor explanations of urban fragmentation. The article, while accepting the hypothesis that the urban context is increasingly fragmented, argues that systems of coordinates – more than a taxonomy or a hierarchy – is needed to make sense of this phenomenon and draw significan comparison between cities. The article also maintains that a significant angle to look at urban polarization relates to the configuration of urban governance and political power. The article therefore considers three main areas connected to the distinction between polity, politics, and policy – and the three corresponding ideal‐types of partitioned, contested and discrete city – where the conflict focuses respectively on the jurisdictional shape of governance, the degrees and venues of access to decision‐making, and frame and contents of public policies.

Israel's settlement policy in the West Bank represents a crucial issue in the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict. Through the examination of a single case study-the planning history of the Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Adummim, located in the eastern periphery of the city-the paper addresses the complex nexus between planning and state-building practices; building on Henri Lefebvre's theory of space, he off ers an account of the role of Israel's settlement policy in the transformation of the material, symbolic, and political landscape of the metropolitan area of Jerusalem. My main argument is that the observation of the development of large suburban communities in the metropolitan area-a blind spot both in media and in academic discourse-is crucial for our understanding of the settlement policy as a whole, and its impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Terroir describes a set of special characteristics of a given place-geography, geology, climate, and human agricultural traditions-that incarnates in the unique taste of its products, usually wine. In contrast to modern perceptions of territory as an abstract legal-political entity, terroir invokes images of organic relations between people and a specific land with a unique 'character'. The paper will analyze the evolving discourse in the West Bank settlements in recent years, which shifts the emphasis from biblical history, ideology, and security-to tourism, vineries, and terroir. The argument will be that the usage of sophisticated wine language enables normalization of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank in a paradoxical way that is emphasizing their location and blurring it at the same time. While the concept of normalization is usually applied to the 'quality-oflife' urban settlements, our paper concentrates on the small and 'ideological' settlements, which are located in the densest Palestinian regions. By that, we wish to contribute to the growing research body on the West Bank settlements, as well as to the fields of geopolitics, colonial and postcolonial studies, and cultural geography.

Full reference: Allegra M., Tulumello S., Colombo A., Ferrão J. (2020), "The (hidden) role of the EU on housing policy: the case of Portugal in multi-scalar perspective", European Planning Studies, online rst.