Urban tour: among gardens and alleys (Open House 2025)
Join us for an urban tour among the city gardens and passageways – some familiar, others more secret – and get acquainted with Tel Aviv as it was imagined almost a century ago by Patrick Geddes: a Mediterranean garden city.
זמן ומיקום | Time & Location
16 במאי 2025, 9:30 – 11:30
תל אביב-יפו, אידלסון 29, תל אביב-יפו, ישראל
פרטים | Information
The tour is led by Anat Groysman, certified tour guide via ministry of tourism.
The Geddes master plan of 1925 charted the growth of Tel Aviv northward toward the Yarkon River. An integral part of the plan are the small block gardens secreted within the plan’s urban blocks.
During the tour we will walk through several of these block gardens – some very familiar and others that are like secrets, shared only by the block’s residents. Along the way we will talk about the central role Geddes envisioned for the block gardens, learn the story of their evolution and transformations over time. As we meander we will discover the passageways and alleys connecting the gardens, and get familiarized with the secret system of green alleys, paths, and “windows” whose foundations were laid in the Geddes plan and which continue to serve the city.
The tour is based on the findings of a study conducted by Arch. Ruth Liberty-Shalev and Arch. Adi Har-Noy for the Conservation Dept at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. The study was presented in the exibition The Urban Block Gardens held at Liebling Haus - The White City Center.
Tour duration: 2 hours; length 2km; point of departure: Liebling Haus. The tour ends at Sderot Hen/ Latris.