'A superbly researched and exemplary architectural study ... If you want an explanation of the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict - and of just how deep they go, right into the very foundations of the buildings - this book gives one of the most unusual and convincing accounts'
Owen Hatherley, the Guardian 'An important and fascinating exposé through architecture, ... Read moregeography and history. A sad but revealing history of how myths are forged and histories corrupted'
Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape (Profile Books, 2008) and winner of the Orwell Prize for Literature 'This tale of Tel Aviv's growth from a Jaffa suburb to a metropolis is gripping'
The Economist 'Fascinating'
Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times 'A path-breaking and brilliant analysis that combines architecture, urban design, military strategy and general culture into an exhilarating war of streets and homes.'
Eyal Weizman, author of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso, 2012) 'White City, Black City is a detailed and useful corrective to the mainstream Zionist narrative about the founding of Tel Aviv'
Times Literary Supplement 'Rotbard's narrative contains fascinating insights'
Haaretz 'White City, Black City is not a book about architecture. It is a political text written in a beautiful clear language.'
Time Out 'A challenging book that deserves to be read and argued over. Rotbard here slaughters an especially sacred cow: Tel Avivness'
Tom Segev, Haaretz 'A fundamental, fascinating and clever book on architecture in the service of politics'
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