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Date

3-1980

Description

This photograph of a residential street in Tel Aviv shows traces of Scottish planner Patrick Geddes plan in the narrow street and the patches of greenery. The Geddes Plan, drafted in 1926, attempted to design Tel Aviv in the style of garden cities, a popular urban concept at the time, which favored the city dweller over the automobile. Economic constraints and enormous demand for housing eventually lead to the development of high rise structures and buildings in the International style dominating the city, with only traces of Geddes Plan, such as in this image.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes
(accessed October 19, 2011)

Mann, Barbara. A Place in History: Modernisim, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) pp. 162

Dusvshani, Gilead. Notes on Local Architecture in Israel. (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tubingen, 2008) pp. 174-176

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1854-1932

Creator 2 Role

Urban Planner

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

modernism, international style, garden cities, urban greenery, Geddes Plan

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