Editing Tel Aviv (section)

===British administration (1917–1934)===
[[File:1930 Survey of Palestine map, with highlighting showing urban boundaries of Jaffa and Tel Aviv within the Jaffa Municipality.jpg|thumb|1930 [[Survey of Palestine]] map, showing urban boundaries of Jaffa (green) and the Tel Aviv township (blue) within the Jaffa Municipality (red)<ref name=Goren/><ref name=Gorion/>]]
Tel Aviv, along with the rest of the Jaffa municipality, was conquered by the [[British Empire#First World War|British imperial army]] in late 1917 during the [[Sinai and Palestine Campaign]] of [[World War I]] and became part of British-administered [[Mandatory Palestine]] until 1948.

Tel Aviv, established as suburb of Jaffa, received "township" or local council status within the Jaffa Municipality in 1921.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Tel-Aviv-Yafo |title=Tel Aviv–Yafo &#124; History, Population, & Points of Interest |website=Britannica.com |access-date=23 February 2022 |archive-date=18 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318060506/https://www.britannica.com/place/Tel-Aviv-Yafo |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Goren/><ref name=Gorion/> According to a [[1922 census of Palestine|census]] conducted in 1922 by the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], Tel Aviv had a population of 15,185 (15,065 Jews, 78 Muslims and 42 Christians).<ref name="Census1922">{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/PalestineCensus1922 |title=Palestine Census (1922) |website=Archive.org}}</ref> The population of Tel Aviv had increased to around 34,000 by 1925.<ref name="UNESCO" /><ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web |url=http://www.travelnet.co.il/israel/TelAviv/History.htm |title=Tel Aviv History |access-date=20 January 2008 |website=Travelnet.co.il |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505085933/http://www.travelnet.co.il/israel/TelAviv/History.htm |archive-date=5 May 2009}}</ref> The [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]] recorded Tel Aviv as having a population of 46,101 (45,564 Jews, 288 with no religion, 143 Christians, and 106 Muslims) in 12,545 houses.<ref name="Census1931">Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 15]</ref>

With increasing Jewish immigration during the [[Mandatory Palestine|British administration]], friction between Arabs and Jews in Palestine increased. On 1 May 1921, the [[Jaffa riots]] resulted in the deaths of 48 Arabs and 47 Jews and injuries to 146 Jews and 73 Arabs.<ref>[http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:hcpp&rft_dat=xri:hcpp:rec:1921-024927 Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the disturbances in Palestine in May, 1921] {{dead link|date=June 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, with correspondence relating thereto (Disturbances), 1921, Cmd. 1540, p. 60.</ref> In the wake of this violence, many Jews left Jaffa for Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv began to develop as a commercial center.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgqj1Ox8StsC&pg=PA298 |title=From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917–1939 |first=Joseph B. |last=Glass |date=1 January 2002 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-2842-2 |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005124541/https://books.google.com/books?id=dgqj1Ox8StsC&pg=PA298#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1923, Tel Aviv was the first town to be wired to electricity in Palestine, followed by Jaffa later in the same year. The opening ceremony of the Jaffa Electric Company powerhouse, on 10 June 1923, celebrated the lighting of the two main streets of Tel Aviv.<ref>{{cite book |last=Shamir |first=Ronen |date=2013 |title=Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine. |location=Stanford |publisher=Stanford University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GaT3AAAAQBAJ |isbn=978-0-8047-8868-7 |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005124438/https://books.google.com/books?id=GaT3AAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1925, the Scottish biologist, sociologist, philanthropist and pioneering town planner [[Patrick Geddes]] drew up the [[Geddes Plan for Tel Aviv]], a [[Urban planning|master plan]] for Tel Aviv which was adopted by the city council led by [[Meir Dizengoff]]. Geddes's plan for developing the northern part of the township was based on [[Ebenezer Howard]]'s [[garden city movement]].<ref name=Levine>{{cite journal |last1=Levine |first1=Mark |title=Globalization, Architecture, and Town Planning in a Colonial City: The Case of Jaffa and Tel Aviv |journal=Journal of World History |year=2007 |volume=18 |issue=2 |page=178 |doi=10.1353/jwh.2007.0013 |s2cid=145670872}}</ref> The plan consisted of four main features: a hierarchical system of streets laid out in a grid, large blocks consisting of small-scale domestic dwellings, the organization of these blocks around central open spaces, and the concentration of cultural institutions to form a civic center.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Welter |first1=Volker M. |title=The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes |journal=Israel Studies |year=2009 |volume=14 |issue=3 |page=100 |doi=10.2979/ISR.2009.14.3.94 |s2cid=146499373}}</ref> While most of the northern area of Tel Aviv was built according to this plan, the [[Fifth Aliyah|influx of European refugees in the 1930s]] necessitated the construction of taller apartment buildings on a larger footprint in the city.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Welter |first1=Volker M. |title=The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes |journal=Israel Studies |year=2009 |volume=14 |issue=3 |page=115 |doi=10.2979/ISR.2009.14.3.94 |s2cid=146499373}}</ref>

[[Ben Gurion House]] was built in 1930–31, part of a new workers' housing development. At the same time, Jewish cultural life was given a boost by the establishment of the Ohel Theatre and the decision of [[Habima Theatre]] to make Tel Aviv its permanent base in 1931.<ref name="JewishVL" />