Seizing Jerusalem: the architectures of unilateral unification

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-Shifta...

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Main Author: Nitzan-Shifṭan, Alonah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN ; London University of Minnesota Press [2017]
Series:A quadrant book
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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
Physical Description:xi, 361 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 26 cm
ISBN:9780816694273
0816694273
9780816694280
0816694281

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