LevANT 2050 is a Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian regional planning team that focuses on the relationship between heritage and metropolitan development.
Its mission is to promote socio-economic and political stability by mapping shared cultural, natural, and environmental assets and challenges. The initiative views Gaza’s recovery as inseparable from its wider regional context, envisioning it as part of a transboundary metropolitan system connected to neighboring countries through shared resources, environmental cooperation, and trade.
LevANT 2050 emphasizes that successful regional integration must begin locally—through community engagement, trust-building, and participatory governance—creating a model that blends grassroots empowerment with long-term regional collaboration.
We support socio-economic and political stability by mapping the shared cultural and natural heritage and environmental challenges.
We believe that the recovery of Gaza cannot be isolated from its regional and global context. LevANT 2050 envisions Gaza as part of a transboundary metropolitan region—linked economically and environmentally to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and beyond. This regional integration, rooted in shared resources, environmental cooperation, and trade corridors, offers a pathway to peace and mutual prosperity.
However, we emphasise that such integration must start from the ground up. Local trust-building and community engagement form the foundation for any larger framework of regional cooperation. By investing in local capacities and encouraging participatory governance, the initiative creates a model of reconstruction that combines bottom-up empowerment with long-term cross-border collaboration.
If you are interested in keeping in contact with the initiative and being updated, you are welcome to contact us at anthedon.heritopolis@gmail.com
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A Vision of Hope
Anthedon is the collective work of a team from the HERITOPOLIS Consortium, together with other experts addressing specific issues relevant to the Initiative and in consultation with key local professionals.HERITOPOLIS - Heritage and the Metropolis - is an open-ended research network established in 2021 to explore how metropolises are being (re-)shaped by heritage and how they are redefining its meaning. HERITOPOLIS addresses these challenges linking research and practice through the UN-Habitat UNI – University Network Initiative – MetroHUB partnership and within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.The HERITOPOLIS Society is registered in Korea as an NGO #603-82-78661 and a member of the Korean Research Foundation, www.kci.go.kr #8B4813 www.heritopolis.org
The grant for the launching stage of the Anthedon Initiative was made possible thanks to the generous contribution of Fidelity Charitable.
Disclaimer
The Anthedon Initiative does not necessarily reflect the views of UNHABITAT and the MetroHUB