作者简介

Sharon Rotbard, an Israeli architect, author, and publisher, is Senior Lecturer in the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and Chair of Architecture at the CARE School of Architecture in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

内容简介

The history of Tel Aviv, presented for a moment as an architectural history, can be seen as a part of a wider process in which the physical shaping of Tel Aviv and its political and cultural construction are intertwined, and plays a decisive role in the construction of the case, the alibi, and the apologetics of the Jewish settlement across the country.

—White City, Black City

In 2004, the city of Tel Aviv was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site, an exemplar of modernism in architecture and town planning. Today, the Hebrew city of Tel Aviv gleams white against the desert sky, its Bauhaus-inspired architecture betraying few traces of what came before it: the Arab city of Jaffa. In White City, Black City, the Israeli architect and author Sharon Rotbard offers two intertwining narratives, that of colonized and colonizer. It is also a story of a decades-long campaign of architectural and cultural historical revision that cast Tel Aviv as a modernist “white city” emerging fully formed from the dunes while ignoring its real foundation—the obliteration of Jaffa. Rotbard shows that Tel Aviv was not, as a famous poem has it, built “from sea foam and clouds” but born in Jaffa and shaped according to its relation to Jaffa. His account is not only about architecture but also about war, destruction, Zionist agendas, erasure, and the erasure of the erasure.

Rotbard tells how Tel Aviv has seen Jaffa as an inverted reflection of itself—not shining and white but nocturnal, criminal, dirty: a “black city.” Jaffa lost its language, its history, and its architecture; Tel Aviv constructed its creation myth. White City, Black City—hailed upon its publication in Israel as ”path-breaking,” “brilliant,” and “a masterpiece”—promises to become the central text on Tel Aviv.


Sharon Rotbard, an Israeli architect, author, and publisher, is Senior Lecturer in the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and Chair of Architecture at the CARE School of Architecture in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

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  • amaranth
    先不说内容,作者的文风就十分赏心悦目。而关于特拉维夫的历史不仅叙述详尽,观点更是深入独到。作为一个本国人毫不留情痛批以这座城市发展为象征的建国中包含的种种民族自大情结。最是喜欢这样的作者。如果不是为了论文需要真的无缘拜读。感谢特大的图书馆。01-07

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