Seizing Jerusalem
Subtitle: the architectures of unilateral unification
By: Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780816694273; 9780816694280
Subjects: City planning; Architecture; Nationalism and architecture; Modern Architecture; Landscape design
Description: 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.
Notes: "A quadrant book"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encounters : modern architecture and Israeli nationalism; title: Profession : East Jerusalem and the emergence of the Sabra architects; title: State : facts on the ground; title: City : urban beautification; title: Frontier : a holy testing ground for a discipline in crisis; title: Project : the Western Wall plaza.