White City
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How it came to be
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 on the dunes just north of the walled port of Jaffa. Its first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, asked the planner Patrick Geddes for a master plan, and from 1925 Geddes laid out the streets and blocks. Tel Aviv is his only large-scale urban realisation.
From the early 1930s, architects trained and working in Europe settled here and built white, flat-roofed modern buildings. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Jewish architects from the Bauhaus such as Arieh Sharon fled Germany for the city. Windows were made small and balconies long and narrow against the sun, and the Engel House of 1933 was the first building in Tel Aviv raised on pillars.
More than 4,000 buildings date from the 1930s. The White City was inscribed in 2003, and a conservation plan covering about 1,000 historic buildings was approved in 2008.
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