Format:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780295800301
Series Statement:
Studies in Modernity and National Identity Series
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East:The Burden of Representation -- Part I: Colonial Constructions -- 1. Jerusalem Remade -- 2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya -- Part II: Building the Nation -- 3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad -- 4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building -- 5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s -- 6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel -- 7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem -- 8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo -- Part III: Overviews and Openings -- 9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge -- 10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Isenstadt, Sandy Modernism and the Middle East Seattle : University of Washington Press,c2008 ISBN 9780295987941
Language:
English
Keywords:
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