Landed Internationals
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Seiten
2020
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2121-8 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2121-8 (ISBN)
2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning
Special Mention, First Book Prize, International Planning History Society
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 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.
Special Mention, First Book Prize, International Planning History Society
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 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.
Burak Erdim is an assistant professor of architectural history at North Carolina State University.
Abbreviations
Introduction. Housing Internationals and the Postwar World Order
1. Encounters in Housing and Land Economics
2. Redefining Technical Assistance: From Policy to Training and Education
3. An Institute or a University? Assembling Experts and Inperts
4. A New Industrial Order: The Forum and the Nation
5. The Campus and the National Imaginary: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood
6. Stewards of the Land: Culture, Currency, and the Nation
Epilogue. METU at Large: METU as Revolution
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices |
| Zusatzinfo | 36 b&w photos, 24 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2121-7 / 1477321217 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2121-8 / 9781477321218 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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