This article explores the role of space in facilitating forms of political power, as shown in the destruction of landscape in the center of Israel by the Hiriya landfill. That failed infrastructure wrecked the delicate legacies of mankind and nature, thus sealing the area’s fate as a city’s repellent dumping ground that attracted all kinds of liminal activities. After the 1948 war, which resulted in the establishment of the state of Israel, the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages and the erasure of their people’s legacy, Tel Aviv begun dumping its household waste near an Arab village, the residents of which had been expelled during the conflict. The authorities promised the local inhabitants — Jewish newcomers and refugees in the nearby transit camp, as well as local city dwellers — a new and modern compost plant, but the plant’s opening was repeatedly postponed. This article reveals the rapid changes that occurred in the early 1950s in the Hiriya area, and how insistence on a modern, technologically based solution to waste treatment, suffused with Zionist ideology, resulted in the creation of an infamous site that became a symbol for environmental, infrastructural, social and health hazards. Drawing from diverse unexplored textual and visual archival sources, including aerial photographs, historical maps, printed texts and interviews, we argue that this combined method of landscape reading is crucial for understanding such a tragedy of landscape. Our study of the Hiriya landfill points to the challenges posed by infrastructure, and contributes to future research into post-industrial sites, including landfills, quarries, airfields, mines and factories.

本文探讨了空间在促进政治权力形式方面的作用，如 Hiriya 垃圾填埋场对以色列中部景观的破坏所示。失败的基础设施破坏了人类和自然的脆弱遗产，从而注定了该地区作为城市令人厌恶的垃圾场的命运，吸引了各种阈限活动。1948 年战争导致以色列国建立，数百个巴勒斯坦城镇和村庄被毁，人民的遗产被抹去，特拉维夫开始在一个阿拉伯村庄附近倾倒生活垃圾，该村庄的居民曾在冲突中被驱逐出境。当局向当地居民——附近临时营地的犹太新移民和难民，以及当地城市居民——承诺建造一个新的现代化堆肥厂，但工厂的开业一再推迟。这篇文章揭示了 Hiriya 地区在 1950 年代初期发生的快速变化，以及对充满犹太复国主义意识形态的基于现代技术的废物处理解决方案的坚持如何导致创建一个臭名昭着的网站，成为环境的象征、基础设施、社会和健康危害。我们从各种未开发的文本和视觉档案资源中汲取灵感，包括航拍照片、历史地图、印刷文本和访谈，认为这种景观阅读的组合方法对于理解这种景观悲剧至关重要。我们对 Hiriya 垃圾填埋场的研究指出了基础设施带来的挑战，并有助于未来对后工业遗址的研究，包括垃圾填埋场、采石场、机场、矿山和工厂。