White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and grew into a metropolis under the British Mandate. UNESCO says the White City was built from the early 1930s to the 1950s on Sir Patrick Geddes's plan, reflecting modern organic planning principles, by architects trained in Europe who created an outstanding ensemble of the Modern Movement in a new cultural context.

Geddes was commissioned by the first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, began work in 1925 and had his plan accepted in 1929; he set the streets and blocks but no style. That came after 1933, when German Jewish architects of the Bauhaus school such as Arieh Sharon fled to Palestine, giving Tel Aviv the largest number of International Style buildings of any city. Wikivoyage calls Rothschild Boulevard the city's prettiest street, lined with Bauhaus, and recommends a guided tour of the district.

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