Landed internationals : planning cultures, the academy, and the making of the modern Middle East / Burak Erdim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdim, Burak, author.

Series:

Lateral exchanges.

Lateral exchanges: architecture, urban development, and transnational practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Turkey--Ankara.

City planning.

Transnationalism--Economic aspects.

Transnationalism.

Housing--Turkey--Ankara.

Housing.

Education, Higher--Turkey--Ankara.

Education, Higher.

Ankara (Turkey)--Economic aspects.

Ankara (Turkey).

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4773-2123-3

1-4773-2122-5

OCLC:

1266228120