White City, Black City

Sharon Rotbard is an Israeli architect, publisher and author. He co-founded the independent press Babel Publishers and serves as Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He lives with his wife in Tel Aviv.

• Part I: White CityBook of Paper, Book of Stone Writers and Builders The White City Exhibition The Invention of Normality ConservationWhitened City White Lies Round Corners Good Old Eretz Israel Whiter than White CityBuilt on DunesPart II: Black CityThe Black Patch WarFleeing Jaffa Bypassing Manshieh Spatial Contradiction ‘Those Polish of the Orient’ SeparationBritish 1930s UrbicideCleansingJaffa – Tel Aviv An Occupied City Hebraized City The Big Zone Antique Jaffa Green Dunes Raping the Bride of the SeaThe Orange Route The Children of Jaffa The MenorahPart III: White City, Black City and a RainbowUncritical Modernists Blue and White Multicultural City AfterwordAcknowledgementsNotes BibliographyIndexBibliography Index

'A superbly researched and exemplary architectural study ... If you want an explanation of the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict - and of just how deep they go, right into the very foundations of the buildings - this book gives one of the most unusual and convincing accounts'