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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806907103321

Autore

Nitzan-Shiftan Alona

Titolo

Seizing Jerusalem : the architectures of unilateral unification / / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, [Minnesota] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4529-5456-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

720.95694/42

Soggetti

Architecture, Modern

Architecture - Jerusalem

Landscape design - Jerusalem

City planning - Jerusalem

Nationalism and architecture - Jerusalem

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.