Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm
ISBN: 978-0-262-52772-9
Verlag: MIT PR
The history of Tel Aviv, presented for a moment as an architectural
history, can be seen as a part of a wider process in which the physical shaping of
Tel Aviv and its political and cultural construction are intertwined, and plays a
decisive role in the construction of the case, the alibi, and the apologetics of the
Jewish settlement across the country. -- White City, Black
City
In 2004, the city of Tel Aviv was declared by
UNESCO a World Heritage Site, an exemplar of modernism in architecture and town
planning. Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv gleams white against the desert sky,
its Bauhaus-inspired architecture betraying few traces of what came before it: the
Arab city of Jaffa. In White City, Black City, the Israeli
architect and author Sharon Rotbard offers two intertwining narratives, that of
colonized and colonizer. It is also a story of a decades-long campaign of
architectural and cultural historical revision that cast Tel Aviv as a modernist
"white city" emerging fully formed from the dunes while ignoring its real
foundation -- the obliteration of Jaffa. Rotbard shows that Tel Aviv was not, as a
famous poem has it, built "from sea foam and clouds" but born in Jaffa and
shaped according to its relation to Jaffa. His account is not only about
architecture but also about war, destruction, Zionist agendas, erasure, and the
erasure of the erasure.
Rotbard tells how Tel Aviv has seen Jaffa
as an inverted reflection of itself -- not shining and white but nocturnal,
criminal, dirty: a "black city." Jaffa lost its language, its history, and
its architecture; Tel Aviv constructed its creation myth. White City, Black
City -- hailed upon its publication in Israel as
"path-breaking," "brilliant," and "a masterpiece" --
promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv.
Praise for the
Israeli edition of White City, Black City
"A path-breaking
and brilliant analysis." -- Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow
Land
"A challenging book that deserves to be read
and argued." -- Tom Segev, Haaretz
Rotbard
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history, can be seen as a part of a wider process in which the physical shaping of
Tel Aviv and its political and cultural construction are intertwined, and plays a
decisive role in the construction of the case, the alibi, and the apologetics of the
Jewish settlement across the country. -- White City, Black
City
In 2004, the city of Tel Aviv was declared by
UNESCO a World Heritage Site, an exemplar of modernism in architecture and town
planning. Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv gleams white against the desert sky,
its Bauhaus-inspired architecture betraying few traces of what came before it: the
Arab city of Jaffa. In White City, Black City, the Israeli
architect and author Sharon Rotbard offers two intertwining narratives, that of
colonized and colonizer. It is also a story of a decades-long campaign of
architectural and cultural historical revision that cast Tel Aviv as a modernist
"white city" emerging fully formed from the dunes while ignoring its real
foundation -- the obliteration of Jaffa. Rotbard shows that Tel Aviv was not, as a
famous poem has it, built "from sea foam and clouds" but born in Jaffa and
shaped according to its relation to Jaffa. His account is not only about
architecture but also about war, destruction, Zionist agendas, erasure, and the
erasure of the erasure.
Rotbard tells how Tel Aviv has seen Jaffa
as an inverted reflection of itself -- not shining and white but nocturnal,
criminal, dirty: a "black city." Jaffa lost its language, its history, and
its architecture; Tel Aviv constructed its creation myth. White City, Black
City -- hailed upon its publication in Israel as
"path-breaking," "brilliant," and "a masterpiece" --
promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv.
Praise for the
Israeli edition of White City, Black City
"A path-breaking
and brilliant analysis." -- Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow
Land
"A challenging book that deserves to be read
and argued." -- Tom Segev, Haaretz
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