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Rotbard, Sharon

White city black city : architecture and war in Tel Aviv and Jaffa - London Pluto Press 2015 - vii,244p.

CONTENTS
PART I: WHITE CITY i
Book of Paper, Book of Stone 3
Writers and Builders 5
The White City exhibition 6
The Invention of Normality 8
Conservation 9
Whitened City 11
White Lies 16
Round Corners 24
Good Old Eretz Israel 33
Whiter than White City 38
Built on Dunes 43
PART II: BLACK CITY 55
The Black Patch 63
War 66
Fleeing Jaffa 69
Bypassing Manshieh 72
Spatial Contradiction 79
'Those Polish of the Orient' 81
Separation 88
British 1930s 91
Urbicide 98
Cleansing 207
Jaffa - Tel Aviv 108
An Occupied City 110
Hebraized City 112
The Big Zone 115
Antique Jaffa 120
Green Dunes 124
Raping the Bride of the Sea 128
The Orange Route 134
The Children of Jaffa 139
The Menorah 141
PART III: WHITE CITY, BLACK CITY AND A RAINBOW 157
Uncritical Modernists 161
Blue and White 174
Multicultural City 176
AFTERWORD 183
Acknowledgements 190
Notes 193
Bibliography 221
Index 229




ISBN: 9780745335117

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Dewey Class. No.: 720.1 / ROT