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Book SynopsisMuch recent literature dealing with the formation of modern cities, particularly in developing countries has not adequately conveyed the complexity of the issues. Using a selection of examples from around the world and from the past two centuries, this book explores the transfers of models that seek to shape urban environments.
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Table of ContentsPreface vii
Introduction: Transporting Planning xi
JOE NASR AND MERCEDES VOLAIT
Chapter 1 Writing Transnational Planning Histories 1
ANTHONY D. KING
PART 1 THE LATEST MODELS 15
Chapter 2 Making Cairo Modern (1870–1950): Multiple Models for a ‘European-style’ Urbanism 17
MERCEDES VOLAIT
Chapter 3 The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and its Colonies 51
CAROLA HEIN
Chapter 4 Learning from the US: the Americanisation of Western Urban Planning 83
STEPHEN V. WARD
PART 2 CITY-BUILDING, STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING 107
Chapter 5 Urbanism as Social Engineering in the Balkans: Reform Prospects and Implementation Problems in
Thessaloniki 109
ALEXANDRA YEROLYMPOS
Chapter 6 From ‘Cosmopolitan Fantasies’ to ‘National Traditions’: Socialist Realism in East Berlin 128
ROLAND W. STROBEL
Chapter 7 The Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Egyptian Eyes: The Case of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 155
ALAA EL-HABASHI
PART 3 POWERFUL SUBJECTS 185
Chapter 8 From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the Ottoman
Empire around 1870 187
NORA LAFI
Chapter 9 Beirut and the Étoile Area: An Exclusively French Project? 206
MAY DAVIE
Chapter 10 Local Wishes and National Commands: Planning Continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s 230
JOE NASR
PART 4 FOREIGN EXPERTS, LOCAL PROFESSIONALS 263
Chapter 11 Foreign Hires: French Experts and the Urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907–32 265
ALICIA NOVICK
Chapter 12 Politics, Ideology and Professional Interests: Foreign versus Local Planners in Lebanon under President Chehab 290
ERIC VERDEIL
Chapter 13 Towards Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316
RAY BROMLEY
Contributors Biographies 341
Index 345
