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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Table of 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.