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The White City
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Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine.
The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir HaLevana) refers to a collection of 4,000 Bauhaus or International style buildings built in Tel Aviv from the 1930s by German Jewish architects who immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine after the rise of the Nazis. Tel Aviv has the largest number of buildings in this style of any city in the world. In 2003, UNESCO proclaimed Tel Aviv's White City a World Cultural Heritage site, as "an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century." The citation recognized the unique adaptation of modern international architectural trends to the cultural, climatic, and local traditions of the city.
http://www.white-city.co.il/english/index.htm
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1096
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/Architecture/Bauhaus.html |
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