Joachim Schlör
Auteur de Nights in the Big City : Paris, Berlin, London, 1840-1930
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Joachim Schlör
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Schlör, Joachim
- Autres noms
- Schlor, Joachim
- Date de naissance
- 1960
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Germany
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Membres
- 68
- Popularité
- #253,411
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 1
This is a social history of Tel Aviv, part of a Topographic series of books which feature new writing about place. 'Topographics....the reversal of travel literature, the books in this series do not depend on a journey to supply a plot. Instead they mingle analysis with anecdote, criticism with original expressive writing, to explore the creative collision between physical space and the human mind.'
Quite a dense read, but ultimately satisfying, Schlor explores the founding of Tel Aviv and its spectacular growth from many angles. He discusses Tel Aviv's place in the Mediterranean, the Levant, the Middle East and in Israel itself and its role as the first Hebrew city. The city grew because of the influx of immigrants from Europe, these people were not like the first aliyas, full of socialist dreams of working the land, but city dwellers wanting to live in a city and Tel Aviv gave them what they wanted.
Tel Aviv always seems to have been a city for young people and that is still one of its main attractions. My husband is from Tel Aviv and I lived, worked and studied Hebrew there many years ago and I've always loved the frenetic charm of the city and all those beautiful bahaus apartment buildings many of which are finally being restored.… (plus d'informations)