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The development gap between the cities of Jaffa and Tel Aviv and its effect on the weakening of Jaffa in the time of the Mandate
Abstract
At the time of the British Mandate in Palestine the development of Tel Aviv, which the Jaffa Arabs regarded as the realization of the Zionist enterprise, was perceived as a real threat to Jaffa’s future. The two cities’ geographic proximity threw into bold relief the differences between the two levels of development. As the years passed the two cities’ development demonstrated Tel Aviv’s supremacy over Jaffa. From the years of the Arab revolt (1936-1939) the gap between the development of Tel Aviv and of Jaffa inexorably widened. By time the Mandate ended Jaffa’s condition had so deteriorated that the need to narrow the gap had become urgent. Jaffa had to be transformed into a modern city, but also – indeed principally – to be restored to its former strength and status in the context of the worsening Arab-Jewish conflict. The will to achieve this aim intensified as long as Tel Aviv continued to flourish. The article evaluates how far the chasm between the two cities in their development influenced Jaffa’s condition in the declining years of the Mandate. It shows that it damaged Jaffa, being a significant factor reducing its status as an urban center.
This thesis investigates urban evolution in Tel Aviv-Yafo’s historic urban landscape. The research uses historical, spatial, morphological and social analysis to frame and question contemporary configurational, morphological and social properties to examine how historical socio-political conditions in Tel Aviv-Yafo impacted on emergent spaces of activity over time. The research is positioned within, and seeks to advance, the field of heritage urbanism syntax by contributing a social heritage layer as an urban component, alongside the existing components of configuration and morphology. The thesis draws on theories and methods from space syntax, urban morphology, and geography, and employs methods and tools from these fields to explore urban evolution and transformation over time. The research adopts a landscape-based approach firstly to discuss the evolution of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s regional network and secondly to examine the heritage gateway-pathway that links historic Jaffa to Tel Aviv. The gateway-pathway – a transect sample – is used as a tool to track properties of the historic urban landscape and to explore mechanisms of change in urban space. This is related to the impact on the perception and use of heritage space by individuals of different identities today. Analysis finds that individuals with different identities (specifically Arab and Jewish) inhabit, use and perceive space differently. Tel Aviv-Yafo’s spatial and morphological urban evolution has resulted in restricted urban residence, mobility and cognition for Arabs. Conversely, events and urban transformation appear not to impact Jewish cognition, behaviour and activities to the same degree. Historical processes of urban evolution appear to shape heritage patterns and spatial cultures that are identity contingent. The research is innovative in its historical breadth (over 200 years), comprehensive approach (focus on broader landscape and micro-morphological detail, interdisciplinary nature and integrated framework), and the scope of specialised methods used to map transformative urban processes and their impact on individuals today.
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