Gan HaHashmal

Gan HaHashmal in Tel Aviv is a small garden named for the country's first power station, and this guide traces it back to Pinhas Rutenberg, a former revolutionary who talked British officials into letting him build it here in 1923. You'll hear how the neighborhood earned its nickname, and how a fashionable enclave for the city's financial elite slid into decades of decline. Listen for the moment young designers began turning empty garages into studios around this patch of grass.