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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Nasr , independent researcher, Washington, USA and Associate Researcher, CERMOC, Beirut, Lebanon; Mercedes Volait , Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, URBAMA, Université de Tours, France. Klappentext This book redresses the under-representation in existing English-language literature, of the global formation and development of global cities which have been informed by the diffusion of Western ideas and building principles beyond the Western worldThe modes of diffusion of ideas that shape planned environments, and the ways these ideas are realized, have been gaining prominence as subjects of study and discussion among planning historians and others. Recently, some researchers have begun to approach the relations between actors and stakeholders in the processes of planning diffusion in increasingly complex and ambiguous ways.The natives in developing countries, whether colonial or post-colonial, are now being recognized as full-fledged participants 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. The specific traits of the indigenous are even in question: ultimately, who are the 'locals'?The research presented here recognises the importance of both provider and recipient as essential and influential entities within this diffusion process.This book raises important conceptual questions as to the identities and roles of the actors involved and looks at the methodological implications for historians and the new challenges that arise from this questioning of a long-standing traditional view. Zusammenfassung Much 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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 ...
