WHITE CITY, BLACK CITY: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
by Sharon Rotbard
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Praise for WHITE CITY, BLACK CITY:
'An important and fascinating exposé through architecture, geography and history, of the rise of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv, the fabled 'white city,' and the degradation of its Arab neighbour, Jaffa, once the bride of the sea, into a chaotic, degenerated urban backwater. A sad but revealing history of how myths are forged and histories corrupted.' - Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape and winner of the Orwell Prize
'A path-breaking and brilliant analysis' - Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
'A challenging book that deserves to be read and argued over. Rotbard here slaughters an especially sacred cow: Tel Avivness' - Tom Segev, Haaretz
'A masterpiece of critical essay writing' - Ariella Azoulay, author of The Civil Contract of Photograph' and 'From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950
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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.
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