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091097
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This essay approaches the 1925 master plan for Tel-Aviv by the biologist and town planner Patrick Geddes by asking which aspects of his concept of the modern city attracted representatives of the Zionist movement. While the idea of the region-city was applicable to Palestine at large, Geddes's conviction that the modern city had to grow from history was particularly relevant for the resettlement of the ancient Jewish homeland. Geddes planned modern Tel-Aviv as both a part of Palestine and a logical extension of the ancient city of Jaffa. Geddes borrowed decisive features of his plan from his earlier plan for Balrampur, India, and from the historic plan of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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091102
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2009.
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Balconies have an important role in the social life of Tel-Aviv. The article explores different aspects of urban politics and the cultural history of balconies, and in particular sheds light on façade balconies in Tel-Aviv as liminal places between the private sphere and the public arena. Focusing on socio-cultural and architectural characteristics, the study presents, from an historical perspective, changes of style and use of the balconies of Tel-Aviv and examines them as sites of dispute between residents and authorities.
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091096
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2009.
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The city's motto "I will build you and you will be rebuilt," from Jeremiah (31:4) is confronted and even challenged in literary depictions of Tel-Aviv. The mythology prevalent in the city's creation narrative is shattered through the use of urban tropes, such as the street, prostitution, urban sprawl, and the protagonist's isolation, and even eventual suicide, in fictional texts from the 1970s onwards. This article examines texts by Ya'akov Shabtai, Binyamin Tammuz, Yehudit Katzir, and Etgar Keret in which Tel-Aviv, in failing the unique ideology of the first Jewish city, becomes the genuine urban experience for which it was intended-a city like any other.
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091092
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2009.
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Tel-Aviv Poema, a long poem in Yiddish describing the city of Tel-Aviv, was published in Buenos Aires in 1937. Although the poem is not a masterpiece, it represents another way of looking at "the first Hebrew city" that is different from those articulated in much Hebrew literature of the interwar period. This article presents various interpretative contexts for the poema, including contemporary Hebrew poetry, the tradition of the long poem in Russian literature (such as Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman), and Yiddish poetry set in other cosmopolitan centers. For this Yiddish poet, whether he ever set actually set foot in Tel-Aviv, the city-despite its claims for newness-is deeply rooted in the diaspora and the "old world" of European landscapes left behind.
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091091
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2009.
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Geography textbooks, like other cultural artifacts, are usually left as unexploited-raw. Ever since its founding, Tel-Aviv has been represented in geography textbooks in a very positive light-the "European oasis in the East". The dominant line in presenting the city remains-a created artifact that testifies to the vitality and power of Zionism, the center of the State of Israel, the very heart of its economy, culture, and society. It is integrated into the processes of globalization, the contemporary symbols of "world cities" apply to it as well.
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091094
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2009.
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Poems about cities are among the oldest texts known to humanity. This article deals with a collection of poems dedicated to the city of Tel-Aviv. The collection, called Ashirah lakh Tel-Aviv (Let Me Sing to You, Tel-Aviv), was published in 1947 by Shlomo Skulsky (1912-1982), a well-known poet and translator. The book is a small canzoniere-a collection of sonnets. The article shows how Skulsky tackled the problem of Tel-Aviv's a-mythical past, trying to endow the city with a myth of her own. This synthetic myth makes Tel-Aviv Jerusalem's younger daughter and heir. Finally, the article shows how Skulsky, who immigrated to Palestine in 1941, just six years prior to the publication of his book, assumed a fictional poetic persona, pretending to be a veteran of Tel-Aviv, with memories pertaining to the early years of the city. This textual move went well with the effort to weave a myth for the a-mythic city.
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091100
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2009.
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This article focuses on the processes that led to the preservation of urban heritage in Tel-Aviv. Both the preservation of Old Jaffa in the early 1960s and the "White City" in the 1990s demonstrate that small groups of individuals utilizing their personal capital to advance an idea that was not advocated by existing civil groups, succeeded in integrating new ideas into political systems. We label these individuals Ideological Developers (IDs), as opposed to executive developers, and expand on that which characterizes their mode of action.
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102737
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Drawing on the academic literature on public art conflicts and public memory controversies, the article examines the controversy over the design for Tel-Aviv's Monument to the Holocaust and National Revival, and its failure to perform its commemorative function. It argues that underlying the controversial character of the design and the failure of the monument to perform its commemorative function was a public art conflict: the abstract design selected for the monument elicited public opposition as unfitting to represent the monument's commemorative theme.
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091099
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2009.
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This article explores the issue of noise in the formation of Tel-Aviv's soundscapes in the 1920s and the 1930s. Underlying the article are the debates and conflicts over regulation and control of urban soundscapes that were an aspect of Tel-Aviv's urban growth. The analysis is based on letters of complaint sent to the municipality. These letters document different types of noise that bothered residents of the city during this period as well as social norms and cultural conventions deemed by residents and municipal authorities as constitutive of public order.
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