Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification

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This first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem chronicles how architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, Israeli-born architects to international luminaries, competed to create Jerusalem's new image. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan reveals architecture as an active agent in forming urban and national identity, demonstrating how debates about Zionism affected Jerusalem's built environment in ways that resonate today.

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"A rigorous and insightful analysis of the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic encounters and intersections between the two modernisms-in-transition: architectural modernism and national modernism."Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

"With Seizing Jerusalem, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan has succeeded in establishing a breathtaking chronicle of the use made by plans, designs, and buildings to implement an agenda of hegemony. This book contributes masterfully to the renewed discussion about the political uses of architecture in the contemporary period."Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University

"Among the best of the many books released to mark the 50th anniversary of Jerusalems unification."Moment Magazine

"Alona Nitzan-Shiftans Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification is without a doubt a masterpiece. This brilliantly written book is among the most interesting, insightful, beautifully written, and important books about Jerusalem. Taking readers on a detailed voyage across the urban landscape, the book offers substantial new insights, intelligent analysis, and original interpretations on the making of modern Jerusalem during its most transformative periodthe first years following the Six Day War, also known as the 1967 war." Journal of Planning Education and Research

Author Bio

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is associate professor and chair of the architecture program in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.