Authors: S. Ilan Troen
ISBN-13: 9780300094831, ISBN-10: 0300094833
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
"This book tells the story of how Zionist colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds." "S. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930s, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth." Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. I | The Zionist Village | |
Ch. 1 | Covenantal Communities | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Trial and Error in the Village Economy | 15 |
Ch. 3 | The Economic Basis for Arab/Jewish Accomodation | 42 |
Ch. 4 | The Village as Military Outpost | 62 |
Pt. II | Urban Zion | |
Ch. 5 | Tel Aviv: Vienna on the Mediterranean | 85 |
Ch. 6 | Urban Alternatives: Modern Metropolis, Company Town, and Garden City | 112 |
Ch. 7 | "Imagined Communities": The Zionist Variation | 141 |
Pt. III | Post-Independence Opportunities and Necessities | |
Ch. 8 | The Science and Politics of National Development | 163 |
Ch. 9 | From New Towns to Development Towns | 184 |
Ch. 10 | Israeli Villages: Transforming the Countryside | 208 |
Ch. 11 | Establishing a Capital: Jerusalem, 1948-1967 | 233 |
Ch. 12 | Contested Metropolis: Jerusalem After the 1967 War | 259 |
Epilogue: Israel into the Twenty-First Century | 281 | |
Notes | 293 | |
Index | 325 |