Tel Aviv was found­ed in 1909 and devel­oped as a met­ro­pol­i­tan city under the British Man­date in Pales­tine. The White City was con­struct­ed from the ear­ly 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Ged­des, reflect­ing mod­ern organ­ic plan­ning prin­ci­ples. The build­ings were designed by archi­tects who were trained in Europe where they prac­tised their pro­fes­sion before immi­grat­ing. They cre­at­ed an out­stand­ing archi­tec­tur­al ensem­ble of the Mod­ern Move­ment in a new cul­tur­al con­text.