<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The two famous, coastal cities – Miami Beach in the United States and Tel Aviv in Israel – have much in common: they have a similar history, topography and architecture. Their contemporary image was shaped relatively recently, in the second half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Thanks to the changes to the originally grey colour scheme, the sordid and unkempt cities were transformed into world-class tourist attractions and trendy style icons. That is when their current reputations were established: Miami Beach as the pastel-shaded hub of American Art Deco and white Tel Aviv as the symbol of modernist, Bauhaus-like architecture.</p></abstract>

The two famous, coastal cities – Miami Beach in the United States and Tel Aviv in Israel – have much in common: they have a similar history, topography and architecture. Their contemporary image was shaped relatively recently, in the second half of the 20th century. Thanks to the changes to the originally grey colour scheme, the sordid and unkempt cities were transformed into world-class tourist attractions and trendy style icons. That is when their current reputations were established: Miami Beach as the pastel-shaded hub of American Art Deco and white Tel Aviv as the symbol of modernist, Bauhaus-like architecture.

Colour manipulation as a tool for creating the city image on examples of miami beach and Tel Aviv

The Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University College

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The two famous, coastal cities – Miami Beach in the United States and Tel Aviv in Israel – have much in common: they have a similar history, topography and...

Colour manipulation as a tool for creating the city image on examples of miami beach and Tel Aviv

Published Online: May 29, 2020

Page range: 5 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.17.185.7414

Keywords
colours of the city, creation of image, urban identity

© 2017 Artur Jasiński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Colour manipulation as a tool for creating the city image on examples of miami beach and Tel Aviv

Published Online: May 29, 2020

Page range: 5 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.17.185.7414

Keywordscolours of the city, creation of image, urban identity

© 2017 Artur Jasiński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
colours of the city, creation of image, urban identity