Seizing Jerusalem : the architectures of unilateral unification / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture--Jerusalem.

Architecture.

Landscape design--Jerusalem.

Landscape design.

City planning--Jerusalem.

City planning.

Nationalism and architecture--Jerusalem.

Nationalism and architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, [Minnesota] ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Summary:

This first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem chronicles how architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, Israeli-born architects to international luminaries, competed to create Jerusalem's new image. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan reveals architecture as an active agent in forming urban and national identity, demonstrating how debates about Zionism affected Jerusalem's built environment in ways that resonate today.

Contents:

Encounters : modern architecture and Israeli nationalism

Profession : East Jerusalem and the emergence of the Sabra architects

State : facts on the ground

City : urban beautification

Frontier : a holy testing ground for a discipline in crisis

Project : the Western Wall plaza.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5456-9

OCLC:

978295651