Description: Further DetailsTitle: Landed InternationalsCondition: NewSubtitle: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle EastISBN-10: 1477321217EAN: 9781477321218ISBN: 9781477321218Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/11/2020Description: 2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + PlanningSpecial Mention, First Book Prize, International Planning History SocietyLanded Internationals examines the international culture of postwar urban planning through the case of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. Today the center of Turkey's tech, energy, and defense elites, METU was founded in the 1950s through an effort jointly sponsored by the UN, the University of Pennsylvania, and various governmental agencies of the United States and Turkey. Drawing on the language of the UN and its Technical Assistance Board, Erdim uses the phrase "technical assistance machinery" to encompass the sprawling set of relationships activated by this endeavor. Erdim studies a series of legitimacy battles among bureaucrats, academics, and other professionals in multiple theaters across the political geography of the Cold War. These different factions shared a common goal: the production of nationhood—albeit nationhood understood and defined in multiple, competing ways. He also examines the role of the American architecture firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill; the New York housing policy guru Charles Abrams; the UN and the University of Pennsylvania; and the Turkish architects Altuğ and Behruz Çinici. In the end, METU itself looked like a model postwar nation within the world order, and Erdim concludes by discussing how it became an important force in transnational housing, planning, and preservation in its own right. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmAuthor: Burak ErdimGenre: Architecture & AntiquesBook Series: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational PracticesItem Weight: 540gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Landed Internationals
Title: Landed Internationals
Subtitle: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Midd
ISBN-10: 1477321217
EAN: 9781477321218
ISBN: 9781477321218
Release Date: 08/11/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Landed Internationals : Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Urban & Land Use Planning, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Référence
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Burak Erdim
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Architecture, Education, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices Ser.
Format: Hardcover
