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Urban Planning | Instructor: Prof. Arch. Sari Klaus
The city of Bat Yam is located on the Mediterranean coast, bordering on Rishon Lezion to the south, Holon to the east and Tel Aviv-Jaffa to the north. The Ayalon freeway passes along its eastern boundary, constituting a main route connecting the city to the national roads. Demographically, Bat Yam is made up of 54.2% of adults, 20.9% of children and 20% of the elderly. These days, the Municipality of Bat Yam has prioritized the integration of the elderly population into the city’s communal and cultural texture, investing efforts in enabling the local veteran population to be an active and integral part of urban life.
Integrating the elderly population in the urban life could raise the general quality of life in the city and create instructive and empowering collaborations within the community, laying the foundations for an innovative future that does not forget its past. An age-friendly city, as we see it, it is a city that offers a wide range of activities that set the elderly population, encouraging partnership among different sectors and access to diverse activities that contribute and improve the city life.





Main Routs
Commerce
Cultural Centers
Mirror connection between the city of Holon and the city of Bat Yam



Green Areas
Community Centers
Cultural Centers

Main traffic routes and city entrances
Analysis-Based Decisions and Principles
Looking at the city, we recognized that there is a disconnection between the main routes that creates a lack of continuity. The city of Bat Yam is surrounded by neighboring cities, opening the gate for commercial activity, cultural collaborations and tourism, which in the current reality has not really come to fruition. The analysis of the plan shows that although there are similar urban characteristics, such as common axes and points of interest, the interconnectedness of the cities is truncated. Therefore, we felt that the edges should be unraveled as a potential for a new connections to form.
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Delta pouring into the sea
Unstitched threads

Existing situation scheme
