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Constructing a sense of place : architecture and the Zionist discourse / edited by Haim Yacobi

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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
xiii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Yacobi, Haim

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Whose order, whose planning? / Haim Yacobi -- Contested Zionism, alternative modernism : Erich Mendelsohn and the Tel Aviv chug in mandate Palestine / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan -- The flight of the camel : the Levant fair of 1934 and the creation of a situated modernism / Sigal Davidi Kunda and Robert Oxman -- Mold / Zvi Efrat -- Horizontal ideology, vertical vision : Oscar Niemeyer and Israel's height dilemma / Zvi Elhyani -- Trapped sense of peripheral place in frontier space / Erez Tzfadia -- The political construct of the 'everyday' : the role of housing in making place and identity / Rachel Kallus -- Urban iconoclasm : the case of the 'mixed city' of Lod / Haim Yacobi -- Planning to conquer : modernity and its antinomies in the 'new-old Jaffa' / Mark LeVine -- Academia and spatial control : the case of the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem / Diana Dolev -- Re-placing memory / Yael Padan -- Geometrical wounds : the work of Zvi Hecker in Israel, 1990 and 2000 / Timothy Brittain-Catlin -- On belonging and spatial planning in Israel / Tovi Fenster -- Fragile guardians : nature reserves and forests facing Arab villages / Naama Meishar -- A moment of change? Transformations in Israeli architectural consciousness following the 'Israeli pavilion' exhibition / Shelly Cohen.
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0754634272
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment
Ash Family Libraries Endowment in Jewish Studies
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