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1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Developmental time -- 1 Incompletion: on more than a certain tendency in postwar architecture and planning -- 2 God's gamble: self-help architecture and the housing of risk -- Part II Expertise -- 3 Planning for an uncertain present: action planning in Singapore, India, Israel, and Sierra Leone -- 4 To which revolution? The National School of Agriculture and the Center for the Improvement of Corn and Wheat in Texcoco and El Batán, Mexico, 1924-1968 |
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5 From rice research to coconut capital -- 6 "The city as a housing project": training for human settlements at the Leuven PGCHS in the 1970s-1980s -- Part III Bureaucratic organization -- 7 Folders, patterns, and villages: pastoral technics and the Center for Environmental Structure -- 8 The technical state: programs, positioning, and the integration of architects in political society in Mexico, 1945-1955 -- 9 "Foreigners in filmmaking" -- Part IV Technological transfer -- 10 The making of architectural design as Sŏlgye: integrating science, industry, and expertise in postwar Korea |
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11 Infrastructures of dependency: US Steel's architectural assemblages on Indigenous lands -- 12 Reinventing earth architecture in the age of development -- Part V Designing the rural -- 13 Globalizing the village: development media, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, and the United Nations in India -- 14 "Ruralizing" Zambia: Doxiadis Associates' systems-based planning and developmentalism in the nonindustrialized South -- 15 Food capital: fantasies of abundance and Nelson Rockefeller's architectures of development in Venezuela, 1940s-1960s |
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16 The Jewish Agency's open cowsheds: Israeli third way rural design, 1956-1968 -- 17 Floors and ceilings: the architectonics of accumulation in the Green Revolution -- Part VI Land -- 18 Policy regionalism and the limits of translation in land economics -- 19 Leisure and geo-economics: the Hilton and other development regimes in the Mediterranean South -- 20 Antiparochì and (its) architects: Greek architectures in failure -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000543544 |
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1000543544 |
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