Format:
Online-Ressource (478 p.)
ISBN:
9780253356949
Series Statement:
An Israel Studies Book
Content:
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 relatio
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; 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
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14 Art and the CityPart 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;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253005632
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253356949
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tel-Aviv, the First Century : Visions, Designs, Actualities
Language:
English
Keywords:
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