Planning and conserving Jerusalem : The challenge of an ancient city Editors: Eyal Meiron and Doron Bar Of the numerous changes Jerusalem has undergone through the millennia, the changes since June 1967 are arguably the most striking. The book Planning and Conserving Jerusalem: The Challenge of an Ancient City deals with the major changes that the area of the "Ancient City" (The Old City and its environs) underwent between 1973-2003. This book is meant both for the laymen and for professionals and experts. It contains ten main chapters on demography, law, infrastructure, tourism, transportation, archaeology, holly sites religious institutions and more. Additional shorter chapters deal with specific urban plans and various projects. Planning and Conserving Jerusalem is a unique integrative description of the change in the "Ancient City" from the perspective of over thirty years. Doron Bar is an historical and cultural geographer whose interest has been in researching the ways in which various cultural elements have shaped the environment in different periods and places. He teaches at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Dr. Eyal Meiron is Coordinator of Scientific Projects at the Institute of the Land of Israel Studies at Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi. He has served as scientific advisor for a number of historical and archaeological projects in Israel.