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Zionist Architecture and Town Planning

Author : Nathan Harpaz
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612492983
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Zionist Architecture and Town Planning written by Nathan Harpaz and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established as a Jewish settlement in 1909 and dedicated a year later, Tel Aviv has grown over the last century to become Israel’s financial center and the country’s second largest city. This book examines a major period in the city’s establishment when Jewish architects moved from Europe, including Alexander Levy of Berlin, and attempted to establish a new style of Zionist urbanism in the years after World War I. The author explores the interplay of an ambitious architectural program and the pragmatic needs that drove its chaotic implementation during a period of dramatic population growth. He explores the intense debate among the Zionist leaders in Berlin in regard to future Jewish settlement in the land of Israel after World War I, and the difficulty in imposing a town plan and architectural style based on European concepts in an environment where they clashed with desires for Jewish revival and self-identity. While “modern” values advocated universality, Zionist ideas struggled with the conflict between the concept of “New Order” and traditional and historical motifs. As well as being the first detailed study of the formative period in Tel Aviv’s development, this book presents a valuable case study in nation-building and the history of Zionism. Meticulously researched, it is also illustrated with hundreds of plans and photographs that show how much of the fabric of early twentieth century Tel Aviv persists in the modern city.

Constructing a Sense of Place

Author : Haim Yacobi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351949330
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Constructing a Sense of Place written by Haim Yacobi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected. Focusing on the Zionist ideology, this book brings together practising architects and academics to critically examine the role of architects, architecture and spatial practices as mediators between national ideology and the politicization of space. The book first of all sets out the wider context of theoretical debates concerning the role of architecture in the process of constructing a sense of place then divides into six main sections. The book not only provides an innovative new perspective on how the Israeli state had developed, but also sheds light on how architecture shapes national identity in any post-colonial and settler state.

From Theory to Practice

Author : Nathan Harpaz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781124217413
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book From Theory to Practice written by Nathan Harpaz and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study concludes that the Zionist philosophy of promoting modernity while at the same time reviving Jewish historical motifs resulted in a paradoxical interpretation by the architects in Palestine.

The Object of Zionism

Author : Zvi Efrat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Object of Zionism written by Zvi Efrat and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Object of Zionism is a critical study of Zionist spatial planning and the architectural fabrication of the State of Israel from the early 20th century to the 1960s and '70s. Zvi Efrat scrutinizes Israel as a singular modernist project, unprecedented in its political and ethical circumstances and its hyper-production of spatial and structural experiments. Efrat explores the construction of the State of Israel in a book that promises to become a standard reference on Israeli architectural history.

Tel-Aviv, the First Century

Author : Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223571
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Tel-Aviv, the First Century written by Maoz Azaryahu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of disciplinary approaches and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban planning, gender studies, architecture, art, and other fields, these essays reveal the place of Tel-Aviv in the life and imagination of its diverse inhabitants. The careful and insightful tracing of the development of the city's urban landscape, the relationship of its varied architecture to its competing social cultures, and its evolving place in Israel's literary imagination come together to offer a vivid and complex picture of Tel-Aviv as a microcosm of Israeli life and a vibrant modern global city.

Seizing Jerusalem

Author : Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954577
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Seizing Jerusalem written by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was as simple as it was controversial: to both Judaize and modernize Jerusalem. Seizing Jerusalem chronicles how numerous disciplines, including architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, as well as everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, from Israeli-born architects to international luminaries such as Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, and Bruno Zevi, competed to create Jerusalem’s new image. This decade-long competition happened with the Palestinian residents still living in the city, even as the new image was inspired by the city’s Arab legacy. The politics of space in the Holy City, still contested today, were shaped in this post-1967 decade not only by the legacy of the war and the politics of dispossession, but curiously also by emerging trends in postwar architectural culture. Drawing on previously unexamined archival documents and in-depth interviews with architects, planners, and politicians, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan analyzes the cultural politics of the Israeli state and, in particular, of Jerusalem’s influential mayor, Teddy Kollek, whose efforts to legitimate Israeli rule over Jerusalem provided architects a unique, real-world laboratory to explore the possibilities and limits of modernist design—as built form as well as political and social action. Seizing Jerusalem reveals architecture as an active agent in the formation of urban and national identity, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about Zionism, and the crisis within the discipline of architecture over postwar modernism, affected Jerusalem’s built environment in ways that continue to resonate today.

Homeland

Author : Yael Allweil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315395975
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Homeland written by Yael Allweil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of ‘homeland’ to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day.

The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948

Author : Diana Dolev
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739191624
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948 written by Diana Dolev and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site became one of the holiest places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world. Once the Dome of the Rock was built during early Islam, the edifice replaced the temple and for centuries pilgrims, travelers, and locals would climb up to the Mount Scopus summit for the magnificent view it afforded. Hence, planning and building an institute of national importance on Mount Scopus could not disregard the implications of that view of the Temple Mount—in terms of beauty, religious sentiments, and the link to a historic golden age. The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948: Facing the Temple Mount traces, for the first time, the history of the construction of this highly significant Zionist enterprise. It follows the years of the British Mandate rule over Palestine, bookended between the Ottoman Empire government and Israel's independence—an era of great changes in the area, Jerusalem in particular. In the three decades between 1919 and 1948, five different master plans were drawn up for the university, though none of them were fully implemented. Only seven buildings were designed and fully completed. Each plan and building presented an interpretation of a university conception that also related to prevailing styles and ideological trends. Underlying each one were intricate power struggles, donors' wishes, and architectural concerns. Internationally famous town-planners and architects such as Patrick Geddes and Erich Mendelsohn took part in designing the campus. The book also reveals comparatively unknown architects and their contribution to the campus.

Hollow Land

Author : Eyal Weizman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781684367
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Hollow Land written by Eyal Weizman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how they have transformed Gaza and the West Bank into a war zone. This is essential reading for understanding how architecture and infrastructure are used as lethal weapons in the formation of Israel. In this new edition, Weizman explains how the events following the invasion of Gaza in October 2023 bear witness to the continuing policies of oppression. He details how this book became a foundational text for Forensic Architecture.

Homeland

Author : Yael Allweil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138490246
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Homeland written by Yael Allweil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported �Israel is facing a housing crisis with �[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments� House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011�. As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of �homeland� to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day. Following the Introduction, Part I, �Historiographies of Land Reform and Nationalism�, discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858. Part II, �Housing as Proto-Nationalism� focuses on housing as the means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III, �Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereignty�, explores the effects of statehood on national housing across several strata of Israeli society. The Afterword discusses housing as the quintessential object of agonistic conflict in Israel-Palestine, around which the Israeli polity is formed and reformed.

Hollow Land

Author : Eyal Weizman
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804297100
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Hollow Land written by Eyal Weizman and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollow Land is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation. In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of the Occupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice, in which all natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition with which the conflict is waged. Weizman traces the development of these ideas, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon’s reconceptualization of military defense during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations. In exploring Israel’s methods to transform the landscape and the built environment themselves into tools of domination and control, Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.

Stone Men

Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788730275
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Stone Men written by Andrew Ross and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Palestine Book Awards “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone men,” using some of the best-quality limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except one of their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabricating, and dressing is the Occupied Territories’ largest private employer and generator of revenue, and supplies the construction industry in Israel, along with other countries in the region and overseas. Ross’s engrossing, surprising, and gracefully written story of this fascinating ancient trade shows how the stones of historic Palestine, and Palestinian labor, have been used to build the state of Israel—in the process, constructing “facts on the ground”—even while the industry is central to Palestinians’ own efforts to erect bulwarks against the Occupation. For more than a century, the hands that built Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian. Looking at the Palestinian–Israeli conflict in a new light, this book, largely based on field interviews in the region, asks how this record of labor and achievement can and should be recognized.

Planning in the Face of Crisis

Author : Rachelle Alterman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134480458
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Planning in the Face of Crisis written by Rachelle Alterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the fascinating saga of how policymakers and planners at both the national and local levels responded to the formidable demand for housing and massive urban growth.

Overthrowing Geography

Author : Mark LeVine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938502
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Overthrowing Geography written by Mark LeVine and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there. At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv–Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine.

White City, Black City

Author : Sharon Rotbard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book White City, Black City written by Sharon Rotbard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intertwined histories of the construction of the gleaming white Bauhaus-inspired city of Tel Aviv and the dismantling of the Arab city of Jaffa. 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

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ...

Author : Isaac Landman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Israeli Planners and Designers

Author : John Forester
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490203
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Israeli Planners and Designers written by John Forester and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the goals, lives, experiences, and practice of planners, architects, and community organizers who have contributed to the physical and social development of the modern state of Israel. In their own words, these "community builders" share their professional experiences of how they protect and rebuild cities and neighborhoods, how they overcome stereotypes and bureaucratic inertia, how they protect the natural environment and the public health as well. The stories illustrate the practical world of community change in which aesthetics and politics, ethnicity and tradition, commitment and inspiration, hard work and hope all play a part. Students of urban and community life in many countries will be able to draw elements and themes from these particular stories that resonate with their own concerns, experience, and future work.