Sharon Rotbard, White City Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa

Sharon Rotbard’s book White City Black City cleverly examines the planning and architectural histories of Tel Aviv and Jaffa during the twentieth century. These histories are deeply entangled in the broader political and cultural climates that brought about the creation and crystallization of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, at first one against the other, and then one at the expense of the other. The book is in three parts, with the first two parts—“White City” and “Black City”—constituting the bulk of t..