Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2017
Language
English
Call Number
NA1478.J4 N58 2017
ISBN
9780816694280
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
361
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Architecture -- Jerusalem
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Nationalism and architecture -- Jerusalem
Abstract
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.