Zionist Architecture and Town Planning. Nathan Harpaz
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СКАЧАТЬ of the Near East or, in a later phrase, the Middle East.

       Chapter 3

       Zionist Architecture and Town Planning in the Early Twentieth Century

      Tel Aviv was the center of experimentation in architecture and town planning. It was the first urban Jewish settlement established in modern times and a challenge for the realization of the Zionists’ planning ideals. Tel Aviv was founded as a garden city in 1909, grew rapidly crowded during the 1920s, and became one of the most modern cities in the world during the 1930s.

      While traditional theories, mentioned above, focused on relatively objective examination, recent studies of Zionist architecture in the early twentieth century are postmodern in nature and discuss the issue through a narrow scope. Some examine the topic through a philosophical lens and some through a political lens, focusing on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict.