| Description |
1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in modernity and national identity
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Studies in modernity and national identity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays treats the development of modern architecture in the Middle East, ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, and on to present-day Iraq. The essays cohere around the encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architecture and society -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture and society. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Isenstadt, Sandy, 1957-
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Rizvi, Kishwar.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Modernism and the Middle East. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2008 9780295988214 (DLC) 2007051765 (OCoLC)183264995 |
| ISBN |
9780295800301 (electronic book) |
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0295800305 (electronic book) |
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9780295988214 |
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0295988215 |
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9780295987941 |
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0295987944 |
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