Sometime in the mid-1970s, when Tel Aviv was undergoing a serious urban crisis, with its houses peeling and its residents fleeing from it almost in disgust, "it was easy to think that this city, the one in which 'plaster is falling / a shutter is sobbing / a bus is dying,' is, as the poet said, 'a city without a concept,' a random collection of continuing mishaps, united primarily by the total absence of advance planning," writes architect-sociologist Nati Marom in his excellent new book, Ir im konseptzia, metakhnenim et Tel Aviv ("A City with a Concept, Planning Tel Aviv"). The book, which…