Tel-Aviv, the First Century : Visions, Designs, Actualities.
Title:
Tel-Aviv, the First Century : Visions, Designs, Actualities.
Author:
Azaryahu, Maoz.
ISBN:
9780253005632
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Series:
An Israel Studies Book
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Historical Issues -- 1 Telling the Story of a Hebrew City -- 2 Tel-Aviv's Birthdays -- 3 Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth -- 4 From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York -- 5 Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv -- 6 Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City -- 7 South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa-The FrontierZone of "In Between" -- 8 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948 -- 9 Austerity Tel-Aviv -- Part 2 Language, Literature, and Art -- 10 Tel-Aviv Language Police -- 11 Der Eko Fun Goles -- 12 A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth -- 13 Decay and Death -- 14 Art and the City -- Part 3 Planning and Architecture -- 15 The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes -- 16 Preserving Urban Heritage -- 17 Balconies of Tel-Aviv -- 18 The Architecture of the Hyphen -- Afterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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