Urbanism: Imported or Exported?

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 Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316
RAY BROMLEY

Contributors Biographies 341

Index 345