Sharon Rotbard

White City, Black City

Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A hidden history of colonialism and war seen through a changing architectural landscape

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780745350936
• ISBN-10: 0745350933
• Artikelnr.: 71807853

Autorenporträt

Sharon Rotbard is an Israeli architect, publisher and author. He co-founded the independent press Babel Publishers and serves as Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He lives with his wife in Tel Aviv.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Postscript to the New Edition
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index