Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
White City, Black City - Sharon Rotbard

White City, Black City

Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2025 | Second Edition
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-5093-6 (ISBN)
CHF 31,40 inkl. MwSt
A hidden history of colonialism and war seen through a changing architectural landscape
'Gripping' - Economist



'A fascinating exposé' - Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks



'Path-breaking and brilliant' - Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture and author of Hollow Land



Tel Aviv, the Zionist project's 'White City', is said to have risen from the sands of the desert. Acclaimed worldwide for its architectural heritage and gleaming Bauhaus-inspired Modernism, it is ostensibly designed to be a safe home for the Jewish people.



However, the reality of the city's establishment was very different. Hidden below its foundations are the remains of Jaffa – the 'Black City', a Palestinian city that was obliterated to make way for European-style architecture at the heart of a newly-formed Israel.



Both a gripping narrative and a unique architectural record, White City, Black City shows that cities are made not only of stones and concrete but also of stories and histories – victors and losers, predator and prey.



This new edition contains a postscript reflecting on the destruction of the Gaza Strip.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 215 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-7453-5093-3 / 0745350933
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-5093-6 / 9780745350936
Zustand Neuware
Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR)
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen

von Ingo Dachwitz; Sven Hilbig

Buch | Hardcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 39,20