This  short paper was written while I was an Erasmus Visiting Scholar at University College Dublin - it is part of our on-going exploration into the changing nature of cities and the growing importance of religion therein. Nurit and I are currently working on a much more nuanced and theoretically sounded publication regarding the ideas that I explore in this paper. The gist of the paper is the exlporation into the changing nature of cities and the growing challange posed by religion (religious resurgence as referred to herewith on modern urban planning. The case in point being the Lababidi Mosque in Acre. 

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