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245		0	_aLanded Internationals _b: Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East _c/ Burak Erdim (Author)
260			_bUniversity of Texas Press; _c2020
300			_a320p; _c22x15cm
490			_a(Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices)
520			_aUniversity of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning (UNM SA+P) 2023 On The Brinck Book Award 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. LC Subjects Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey) City planning--Turkey--Ankara. Transnationalism--Economic aspects Housing--Turkey--Ankara. Education, Higher--Turkey--Ankara. Ankara (Turkey)--Economic aspects.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aNA9000-9428 Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying _92889
651			_aTurkey _zAnkara. _92890
700			_aErdim, Burak _92891
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