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245 00 $aUrbanism :$bimported or exported? /$cedited by Joseph Nasr and Mercedes Volait.
246 14 $aUrbanism imported or exported? :$bnative aspirations and foreign plans
246 1 $iSubtitle on cover:$aNative aspirations and foreign plans
260 $aLondon :$bWilley-Academy,$c2003.
300 $axxxviii, 354 p. :$bill., maps, plans ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Transporting Planning /$r(Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait). --$tWriting transnational planning histories /$r(Anthony D. King). --$gPart 1:$tThe latest models. --$tMaking Cairo modern$g(1870-1950):$tMultiple models for a European-style urbanism /$r(Mercedes Volait). --$tThe transformation of planning ideas in Japan and its colonies /$r(Carola Hein). --$tLearning from the US: the Americanisation of Western urban planning /$r(Stephen V. Ward). --$gPart 2:$tCity-building, state-building and nation-building --$tUrbanism as social engineering in the Balkans$g(1820-1920):$tReform prospects and implementation problems in Thessaloniki /$r(Alexandra Yerolympos). --$tFrom cosmopolitan fantasies to national traditions: socialist realism in East Berlin /$r(Roland W. Strobel). --$tThe preservation of Egyptian cultural heritage through Egyptian eyes: the case of the comitʹe de conservation des monuments de la̓rt Arabe /$r(Alaa El-Habashi )$gPart 3:$tPowerful subjects. --$tFrom Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: municipal reforms in an outpost of the Ottoman Empire around 1870 /$r(Nora Lafi). --$tBeirut and the Etoile area: an exclusively French project? /$r(May Davie). --$tLocal wishes and national commands: planning continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s /$r(Joe Nasr). --$gPart 4:$tForeign, local professionals. --$tForeign hires: French experts and the urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907-32 /$r(Alicia Novick). --$tPolitics, ideology and professional Interests: foreign versus local planners in Lebanon under President Chehab /$r(Eric Verdeil). --$tTowards global human settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as entrepreneur, coalition-builder and visionary /$r(Ray Bromley).
520 $aThe modes of diffusion of ideas that shape planned environments, and the ways these ideas are realised, have been gaining prominence as subjects of study and discussion among planning historians and others. However, most studies have focused on the diffusion that has occurred within the sphere of the so-called First World, where the participants have been considered as relatively equal partners. On the other hand, where the diffusion took place between the First and Third Worlds, these exchanges have often been projected as one-way impositions where the receivers are silent, oppressed, impotent ¡ if not outright invisible. More recently, some researchers have begun to approach the relations between actors and stakeholders in processes of planning diffusion in a more complex and ambiguous way.
520 $aTo begin with, the natives in developing countries, whether colonial or post-colonial, are being recognised as fully-fledged actors in the shaping of the built environment, with a variety of roles to play and means to play them, even if they frequently face many constraints to their actions. Moreover, the planning influences have started to be acknowledged as going in multiple directions, including back to the source of dissemination. Adaptation, hybridisation, mimicry and appropriation are just some of the forms of diffusion and adoption that are relevant. The specific traits of the indigenous also came to be viewed as something that is not necessarily evident: ultimately, who are the locals℗? Urbanism ¡ Imported or Exported? is the first book to examine the full complexity of these issues in detail.
520 $aIt raises conceptual questions concerning the identities of locals, the roles of relevant actors, and the modes of diffusion, as well as investigating the methodological implications for historians of the city-building process. Using examples from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Mediterranean countries, it offers a bold new approach to the concepts and methods of the study of planning history.
650 0 $aCity planning$zDeveloping countries$xHistory.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zDeveloping countries.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zDeveloping countries$y19th century.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zDeveloping countries$y20th century.
650 0 $aCity planning$zDeveloping countries$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCity planning$zDeveloping countries$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zDeveloping countries$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zDeveloping countries$xHistory$y20th century.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 1 $aNasr, Joseph.
700 1 $aVolait, Mercedes.
700 1 $aNasr, Joe.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tUrbanism.$dChichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Academy, 2003$w(OCoLC)606953314
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