White City, Black City : Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa by Sharon Rotbard DJV, TXT, PDF
9780745335117 English 074533511X 'White City, Black City' focuses on two interconnected narratives woven into the first Hebrew city of Tel Aviv. Firstly it is an analysis of the process by which the image of the White City was created a fabricated, invented image, intended to tie in with an arc that attaches national meaning to the city's existence and to reinforce it.The second story lies underneath: the story of the 'Black City'. Rotbard reveals the wiping out of the Arab city of Jaffa and the inclusion of its wretched remnants within the borders of the Hebrew city. The white Tel Aviv exists in those places where the black Jaffa does not, and vice versa.The book is a harsh indictment of the destruction and obliteration process, and it is critical of the lack of awareness and the denial that go hand in hand with this destruction. This book promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv it's publication in Hebrew was hailed as 'pathbreaking' and a 'masterpiece'., Published originally in Hebrew in 2005, Sharon Rotbard's widely acclaimed, groundbreaking and controversial book White City, Black City challenges Tel Aviv's official narrative.The book shows how Tel Aviv's tale of a modernist 'White City' had 'emerged from the dunes' and gained international recognition which led to Tel Aviv's inscription in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list, and how it served as a fundamental element in the building of both the city and the national identity, culture and rhetoric. However, behind this skyline a palimpsest remains of a city whose history has been buried.White City, Black City offers a new story, in which Tel Aviv is born in Jaffa and is shaped according to its conflict with Jaffa, thus influencing the fate of Palestine, Israel and the Middle East. This new urban parable is not only about architecture, building and writing, but also at its heart about war, destruction, erasure, and the erasure of the erasure., White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives which reveals the hidden history of the region where now stands modern-day Tel Aviv. The new architectural landscape of this city, its Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture glittering white, represents one side of the story, that of the White City, which rose from the sparse sand dunes to house a new Jewish society.But there is a second story ' that of the Black City of Jaffa, the traces of which lie on the outskirts of the region, and which are rarely mentioned.In this book, Sharon Rotbard blows apart this palimpsest in a clear, fluent and challenging style, which promises to force the reality of what so many have praised as 'progress' into the mainstream discourse.White City, Black City is, all at once, an angry uncovering of a vanished history, a book mourning the loss of an architectural heritage, a careful study in urban design and a beautifully written narrative history. It is in all senses a political book, but one that expands beyond the typical., White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives, that of colonised and coloniser. Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv glitters white, its Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture betraying few traces of the city which once stood where it now stands: the Arab city of Jaffa. In this book, Sharon Rotbard blows apart this palimpsest in a clear, fluent and challenging style, which promises to force the reality of what so many have praised as 'progress' into the mainstream discourse.A book that works on many levels, White City, Black City is, all at once, an angry uncovering of a vanished history, a book mourning the loss of an architectural heritage, a careful study in urban design and a beautifully written narrative history. It is in all senses a political book, but one that expands beyond the typical.This book promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv - its publication in Hebrew was hailed as 'path-breaking' and a 'masterpiece'.
9780745335117 English 074533511X 'White City, Black City' focuses on two interconnected narratives woven into the first Hebrew city of Tel Aviv. Firstly it is an analysis of the process by which the image of the White City was created a fabricated, invented image, intended to tie in with an arc that attaches national meaning to the city's existence and to reinforce it.The second story lies underneath: the story of the 'Black City'. Rotbard reveals the wiping out of the Arab city of Jaffa and the inclusion of its wretched remnants within the borders of the Hebrew city. The white Tel Aviv exists in those places where the black Jaffa does not, and vice versa.The book is a harsh indictment of the destruction and obliteration process, and it is critical of the lack of awareness and the denial that go hand in hand with this destruction. This book promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv it's publication in Hebrew was hailed as 'pathbreaking' and a 'masterpiece'., Published originally in Hebrew in 2005, Sharon Rotbard's widely acclaimed, groundbreaking and controversial book White City, Black City challenges Tel Aviv's official narrative.The book shows how Tel Aviv's tale of a modernist 'White City' had 'emerged from the dunes' and gained international recognition which led to Tel Aviv's inscription in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list, and how it served as a fundamental element in the building of both the city and the national identity, culture and rhetoric. However, behind this skyline a palimpsest remains of a city whose history has been buried.White City, Black City offers a new story, in which Tel Aviv is born in Jaffa and is shaped according to its conflict with Jaffa, thus influencing the fate of Palestine, Israel and the Middle East. This new urban parable is not only about architecture, building and writing, but also at its heart about war, destruction, erasure, and the erasure of the erasure., White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives which reveals the hidden history of the region where now stands modern-day Tel Aviv. The new architectural landscape of this city, its Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture glittering white, represents one side of the story, that of the White City, which rose from the sparse sand dunes to house a new Jewish society.But there is a second story ' that of the Black City of Jaffa, the traces of which lie on the outskirts of the region, and which are rarely mentioned.In this book, Sharon Rotbard blows apart this palimpsest in a clear, fluent and challenging style, which promises to force the reality of what so many have praised as 'progress' into the mainstream discourse.White City, Black City is, all at once, an angry uncovering of a vanished history, a book mourning the loss of an architectural heritage, a careful study in urban design and a beautifully written narrative history. It is in all senses a political book, but one that expands beyond the typical., White City, Black City is a story of two intertwining narratives, that of colonised and coloniser. Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv glitters white, its Bauhaus-influenced modernist architecture betraying few traces of the city which once stood where it now stands: the Arab city of Jaffa. In this book, Sharon Rotbard blows apart this palimpsest in a clear, fluent and challenging style, which promises to force the reality of what so many have praised as 'progress' into the mainstream discourse.A book that works on many levels, White City, Black City is, all at once, an angry uncovering of a vanished history, a book mourning the loss of an architectural heritage, a careful study in urban design and a beautifully written narrative history. It is in all senses a political book, but one that expands beyond the typical.This book promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv - its publication in Hebrew was hailed as 'path-breaking' and a 'masterpiece'.