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-Shiftan...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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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. |
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| Item Description: | "A Quadrant book"--Title page. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 361 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816694273 0816694273 9780816694280 0816694281 |