Tel-Aviv, the First Century - Visions, Designs, Actualities
Book description
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.
"The essays are stimulating and original." -Canadian
Jewish News
Maoz Azaryahu is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University
of Haifa and author of Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City.
S. Ilan Troen is Stoll Family Professor of Israel Studies and
Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
