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White City, Black City

Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

Sharon Rotbard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2015
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3511-7 (ISBN)

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A hidden history of colonialism and war in Jaffa and Tel Aviv as seen through its changing architectural landscape

This is the history of colonialism as seen though the architecture of Israel/Palestine. Tel Aviv is the 'White City', said to have risen from the sands of the desert, acclaimed worldwide for its architectural heritage and gleaming Bauhaus-inspired Modernism.

Jaffa is the 'Black City', the Palestinian city that was largely obliterated to make way for a new European-style architecture at the heart of a newly-formed Israel.

Both a gripping narrative and a unique architectural record, this book shows how any city in the world is made not only of stones and concrete but also of stories and histories - victors and losers, predator and prey. In this way, the legend of the Black City and the White City, architecture and war, is our story too.

Sharon Rotbard is an Israeli architect, publisher, author, and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He founded the independent press Babel Publishers, and the architectural practice collective Babel Architecture. He lives in Tel Aviv.

Part I: White City

Book of Paper, Book of Stone

Writers and Builders

The White City Exhibition

The Invention of Normality

Conservation

Whitened City

White Lies

Round Corners

Good Old Eretz Israel

Whiter than White City

Built on Dunes

Part II: Black City

The Black Patch

War

Fleeing Jaffa

Bypassing Manshieh

Spatial Contradiction

‘Those Polish of the Orient’

Separation

British 1930s

Urbicide

Cleansing

Jaffa – Tel Aviv

An Occupied City

Hebraized City

The Big Zone

Antique Jaffa

Green Dunes

Raping the Bride of the Sea

The Orange Route

The Children of Jaffa

The Menorah

Part III: White City, Black City and a Rainbow

Uncritical Modernists

Blue and White

Multicultural City

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2015
Zusatzinfo	with flaps, 80 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	343 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-7453-3511-X / 074533511X
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-3511-7 / 9780745335117
Zustand	Neuware