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Constructing a sense of place : architecture and the Zionist discourse / edited by Haim Yacobi.
Fine Arts Library HT169.I8 C65 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Design and the built environment series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Israel.
- City planning.
- Architecture.
- Israel.
- Architecture--Israel.
- Zionism--Philosophy.
- Zionism.
- Jews--Israel--Identity.
- Jews.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- National characteristics, Israeli.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- Whose Order, Whose Planning? / Haim Yacobi 3
- Part I Reshaping Terra Nullius
- 1 Contested Zionism
- Alternative Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn and the Tel Aviv Chug in Mandate Palestine / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 17
- 2 The Flight of the Camel: The Levant Fair of 1934 and the Creation of a Situated Modernism / Sigal Davidi Kunda, Robert Oxman 52
- 3 Mold / Zvi Efrat 76
- 4 Horizontal Ideology, Vertical Vision: Oscar Niemeyer and Israel's Height Dilemma / Zvi Elhyani 89
- Part II Frontiers
- 5 Trapped Sense of Peripheral Place in Frontier Space / Erez Tzfadia 119
- 6 The Political Construct of the 'Everyday': The Role of Housing in Making Place and Identity / Rachel Kallus 136
- Part III Mixed Spaces
- Separated Places
- 7 Urban Iconoclasm: The Case of the 'Mixed City' of Lod / Haim Yacobi 165
- 8 Planning to Conquer: Modernity and its Antinomies in the 'New-Old Jaffa' / Mark LeVine 192
- Part IV Landmarks of Identity
- 9 Academia and Spatial Control: The Case of the Hebrew University Campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem / Diana Dolev 227
- 10 Re-Placing Memory / Yael Padan 247
- 11 Geometrical Wounds: The Work of Zvi Hecker in Israel, 1990 and 2000 / Timothy Brittain-Catlin 264
- Part V Place/Knowledge
- 12 On Belonging and Spatial Planning in Israel / Tovi Fenster 285
- 13 Fragile Guardians: Nature Reserves and Forests Facing Arab Villages / Naama Meishar 303
- 14 A Moment of Change? Transformations in Israeli Architectural Consciousness Following the 'Israeli Pavilion' Exhibition / Shelly Cohen 329.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0754634272
- OCLC:
- 52553991
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