Editing Tel Aviv (section)

===Environment===
[[File:Soldiers cleaning beach.jpg|thumb|[[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] soldiers cleaning the beaches at Tel Aviv, which have scored highly in environmental tests<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/english/Documents/Beaches%20_2_.pdf |title=Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, Beaches |access-date=23 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712111803/http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/english/Documents/Beaches%20_2_.pdf |archive-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>]]

Tel Aviv is ranked as the [[Sustainable city|greenest city]] in Israel.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000637815&fid=1725 |title=Tel Aviv ranked Israel's greenest city |date=11 April 2011 |newspaper=Globes |access-date=11 April 2011 |archive-date=5 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005083637/http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000637815&fid=1725 |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2008, city lights are turned off annually in support of [[Earth Hour]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=969276&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0 |title=Tel Aviv goes dark as part of global 'Earth Hour' campaign |date=30 March 2008 |newspaper=Haaretz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080330175255/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=969276&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0 |archive-date=30 March 2008}}</ref> In February 2009, the municipality launched a water saving campaign, including competition granting free parking for a year to the household that is found to have consumed the least water per person.<ref name=senyorwater>{{Cite news |last=Senyor |first=Eli |title=Tel Aviv launches water saving campaign |work=Ynetnews |date=22 February 2009 |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3675380,00.html |access-date=27 February 2009 |archive-date=25 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225042502/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3675380,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the early 21st century, Tel Aviv's municipality transformed a derelict [[power station]] into a public park, now named "Gan HaHashmal" ("Electricity Park"), paving the way for [[Ecology|eco-friendly]] and environmentally conscious designs.<ref name="FT">[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d8eb606-70ae-11dd-b514-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1 Electric Tel Aviv], by David Kaufman, ''[[Financial Times]]'', 12 February 2008.</ref> In October 2008, Martin Weyl turned an old garbage dump near [[Ben Gurion International Airport]], called [[Hiriya]], into an attraction by building an arc of plastic bottles.<ref name="NYTPlastic">[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/middleeast/24dump.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=israel%20plastic&st=cse Recycling in Israel, Not Just Trash, but the Whole Dump] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130151307/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/world/middleeast/24dump.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=israel%20plastic&st=cse |date=30 January 2017 }}, by Isabel Kershner, 24 October 2007.</ref> The site, which was renamed [[Ariel Sharon Park]] to honor Israel's former prime minister, will serve as the centerpiece in what is to become a {{cvt|2000|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[urban wilderness]] on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, designed by German [[landscape architect]], [[Peter Latz]].<ref name="NYTPlastic"/>

At the end of the 20th century, the city began restoring historical neighborhoods such as [[Neve Tzedek]] and many buildings from the 1920s and 1930s. Since 2007, the city hosts its well-known, annual [[Open House Tel Aviv]] weekend, which offers the general public free entrance to the city's famous landmarks, private houses and public buildings. In 2010, the design of the renovated Tel Aviv Port (''Nemal Tel Aviv'') won the award for outstanding landscape architecture at the European Biennial for Landscape Architecture in [[Barcelona]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Dvir |first=Noam |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israelis-win-barcelona-landscape-architecture-prize-1.316789 |title=Israelis win Barcelona landscape prize |work=Haaretz |date=3 October 2010 |access-date=3 October 2010 |archive-date=6 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006135453/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israelis-win-barcelona-landscape-architecture-prize-1.316789 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2014, the Sarona Market Complex opened, following an 8-year renovation project of [[Sarona (colony)|Sarona colony]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/sarona-from-templars-to-nazis-government-terror-and-hopefully-to-tranquility/ |title=Sarona: From Templers, to Nazis, government, terror and, hopefully, to tranquility |newspaper=The Times of Israel |date=18 June 2016 |access-date=13 June 2017 |archive-date=30 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330023516/http://www.timesofisrael.com/sarona-from-templars-to-nazis-government-terror-and-hopefully-to-tranquility/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{wide image|Yarkon Park Aerial 01.jpg|750px|[[Yarkon Park]] from [[Kiryat Atidim]] to the Mediterranean Sea}}