Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Most of the ideas on the following pages are the fruits of my Ph.D. dissertation at the Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. My first thanks goes to Professor Rachel Kallus, my Ph.D. advisor, for her guidance , support, and wisdom throughout our long journey. I would like to thank the Technion for funding this research throughout my Ph.D. studies and the Sapir Fund and Blaban Glass Research Fund in Israel. The completion of the book was only possible due to the support of the European Commission (EC) FP6 Marie Curie OIF program, which funded my research at MIT and allowed me to complete this book. I am also appreciative of the support of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, which hosted me for three and half years as a Fulbright Post-doctoral Fellow and as a Marie Curie Fellow. In particular, I am indebted to Professor Diane Davis for her intriguing ideas, her insights, and her amazing hospitality. Also, I want to thank Professor Lawrence Vale for his good advice and for inspiring me to address issues of social and spatial importance. My deepest appreciation goes to Marilyn Levine, who has meticulously read, suggested better words, and proofread the manuscript. Some of these chapters have appeared in earlier versions: Parts of Chapter 3 appeared in the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 26/3 (2009): 198–212. Certain ideas articulated in this book were explored in articles I wrote with Professor Rachel Kallus: in the Journal of Planning Perspectives, volume 21 (January 2006): 23–44; the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 24, no. 1 (2007): 23–41; and the Journal of Architectural Education 61, no. 4 (2008): 85–94. From different archives in different countries, my research benefited from Acknowledgments xvii the help of many others. I thank the Zionist Archive in Jerusalem, the Archives of the Israel Defense Forces, the Public Record Office (U.K. National Archives), the Palestine Exploration Fund in London, and especially Felicity Cobbing, St. Anthony’s Middle East Centre in Oxford, and, in particular , the wonderful staff of the Tel Aviv Municipal Archives, Ziona Raz, Neli Varzarevski, and Rivka Preshel-Gershon, for their great assistance and professionalism. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...