The exhibition at the Urban Planning Lounge displays the city's unique landscape scheme as designed 100 years ago by the town planner of Tel Aviv, Patrick Geddes. The plan laid out the new city as a grid of residential perimeter blocks, with a ‘block garden’ planted in each of their centers. Together they define the White City's socio-landscape genome.

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The exhibition, the result of a comprehensive research made by our office, was born out of the urgent need to acknowledge historic and contemporary open space in the modern city. Particularly in view of climate crisis and the depletion of natural resources, the block gardens present as essential components In Tel Aviv’s present wellbeing and future development.

Exhibition team: Ruth Liberty-Shalev, Adi Har-Noy, Hadas Nevo Goldberst, Noa Hollander, Anat Levy, Shira Levy-Benyemini
The Office for Documentary Embroidery: Aviv Kruglansky and Vahida Ramujkic
Vegetation installation: Onya Collective - Yaara Rabinovitch and Gil Harabagiu Cohen
Curation, design and production at Liebling Haus: Noa Hollander, Anat Levy, Shira Levy-Benyemini
Graphic design: Noam Noy

The exhibition is based on the study Garden City conducted by the Ruthy Liberty-Shalev and Adi Har-Noy Architecture & Conservation practice, commissioned by the Tel Aviv Municipality Conservation Department
Acknowledgments: The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Conservation Dept; Dept for the Improvement of the City; Authority for the Environment and Sustainability; Authority for Community, Culture and Sport – the Arik Einstein Community Center.