Maoz Azaryahu is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Haifa and author of Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City.
S. Ilan Troen is Stoll Family Professor of Israel Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

Preface: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan Troen

Introduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized / S. Ilan Troen

Part 1. Historical Issues

1. Telling the Story of a Hebrew City / Yaacov Shavit

2. Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929-1959 / Maoz Azaryahu

3. Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective / Hizky Shoham

4. From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks / Yoram Bar-Gal

5. Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv / Tammy Razi

6. Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source / Anat Helman

7. South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa-The Frontier Zone of "In Between" / Deborah S. Bernstein

8. Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story / Nahum Karlinsky

9. Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability / Orit Rozin

Part 2. Language, Literature, and Art

10. Tel-Aviv Language Police / Zohar Shavit

11. Der Eko Fun Goles: "The Spirit of Tel-Aviv" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History / Barbara Mann

12. A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems / Aminadav Dykman

13. Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv / Rachel Harris

14. Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv / Dalia Manor

Part 3. Planning and Architecture

15. The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes / Volker M. Welter

16. Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv / Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian

17. Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics / Carolin Aronis

18. The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

Afterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis / Maoz Azaryahu

Contributors

Index