Burak Erdim, "Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East "
English | ISBN: 1477321217 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 106 MB
English | ISBN: 1477321217 | 2020 | 320 pages | PDF | 106 MB
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.
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