Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The Zionist Village -- Chapter 1. Covenantal Communities -- Chapter 2. Trial and Error in the Village Economy -- Chapter 3. The Economic Basis for Arab/Jewish Accommodation -- Chapter 4. The Village as Military Outpost -- PART II: Urban Zion -- Chapter 5. Tel Aviv: Vienna on the Mediterranean -- Chapter 6. Urban Alternatives: Modern Metropolis, Company Town, and Garden City -- Chapter 7. “Imagined Communities�: The Zionist Variation -- PART III: Post-Independence Opportunities and Necessities
Chapter 8. The Science and Politics of National DevelopmentChapter 9. From New Towns to Development Towns -- Chapter 10. Israeli Villages: Transforming the Countryside -- Chapter 11. Establishing a Capital: Jerusalem, 1948�1967 -- Chapter 12. Contested Metropolis: Jerusalem After the 1967 War -- Epilogue: Israel into the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Index
Summary
This work shows how professionals & settlers have continually innovated plans for both rural & urban frontiers in response to competing demands for social & political ideologies & the need to achieve productivity, economic independence & security in the often hostile environment of Israel/Palestine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index
