Landed Internationals : : Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East / / Burak Erdim.
Landed 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION Housing Internationals and the Postwar World Order
- CHAPTER 1 Encounters in Housing and Land Economics
- CHAPTER 2 Redefining Technical Assistance: From Policy to Training and Education
- CHAPTER 3 An Institute or a University? Assembling Experts and Inperts
- CHAPTER 4 A New Industrial Order: The Forum and the Nation
- CHAPTER 5 The Campus and the National Imaginary: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood
- CHAPTER 6 Stewards of the Land: Culture, Currency, and the Nation
- EPILOGUE METU at Large: METU as Revolution
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index