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Slide Date
3-1980
Date
May 2013
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.
Document Type
Image
Box Number
3
Slide Number
37
Box/Slide Number
3/37
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Dates
1854-1932
Creator 2 Role
Urban Planner
Subject Headings
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- International style; Housing Development -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Housing -- Israel -- Tel Aviv;
Country Name
Israel
City Name
Tel Aviv
Mail To:
JKresten@gmail.com
Keywords
modernism, international style, garden cities, urban greenery, Geddes Plan
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