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.

“…an interesting read…well worth reading about…” (Building Engineer, January 04)

• Preface viiIntroduction: Transporting Planning xiJOE NASR AND MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 1 Writing Transnational Planning Histories 1ANTHONY D. KINGPART 1 THE LATEST MODELS 15Chapter 2 Making Cairo Modern (1870–1950): Multiple Models for a ‘European-style’ Urbanism 17MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 3 The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and its Colonies 51CAROLA HEINChapter 4 Learning from the US: the Americanisation of Western Urban Planning 83STEPHEN V. WARDPART 2 CITY-BUILDING, STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING 107Chapter 5 Urbanism as Social Engineering in the Balkans: Reform Prospects and Implementation Problems inThessaloniki 109ALEXANDRA YEROLYMPOSChapter 6 From ‘Cosmopolitan Fantasies’ to ‘National Traditions’: Socialist Realism in East Berlin 128ROLAND W. STROBELChapter 7 The Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Egyptian Eyes: The Case of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 155ALAA EL-HABASHIPART 3 POWERFUL SUBJECTS 185Chapter 8 From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the OttomanEmpire around 1870 187NORA LAFIChapter 9 Beirut and the Étoile Area: An Exclusively French Project? 206MAY DAVIEChapter 10 Local Wishes and National Commands: Planning Continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s 230JOE NASRPART 4 FOREIGN EXPERTS, LOCAL PROFESSIONALS 263Chapter 11 Foreign Hires: French Experts and the Urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907–32 265ALICIA NOVICKChapter 12 Politics, Ideology and Professional Interests: Foreign versus Local Planners in Lebanon under President Chehab 290ERIC VERDEILChapter 13 Towards Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316RAY BROMLEYContributors Biographies 341Index 345

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.

“…an interesting read…well worth reading about…” (Building Engineer, January 04)

• Preface viiIntroduction: Transporting Planning xiJOE NASR AND MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 1 Writing Transnational Planning Histories 1ANTHONY D. KINGPART 1 THE LATEST MODELS 15Chapter 2 Making Cairo Modern (1870–1950): Multiple Models for a ‘European-style’ Urbanism 17MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 3 The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and its Colonies 51CAROLA HEINChapter 4 Learning from the US: the Americanisation of Western Urban Planning 83STEPHEN V. WARDPART 2 CITY-BUILDING, STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING 107Chapter 5 Urbanism as Social Engineering in the Balkans: Reform Prospects and Implementation Problems inThessaloniki 109ALEXANDRA YEROLYMPOSChapter 6 From ‘Cosmopolitan Fantasies’ to ‘National Traditions’: Socialist Realism in East Berlin 128ROLAND W. STROBELChapter 7 The Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Egyptian Eyes: The Case of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 155ALAA EL-HABASHIPART 3 POWERFUL SUBJECTS 185Chapter 8 From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the OttomanEmpire around 1870 187NORA LAFIChapter 9 Beirut and the Étoile Area: An Exclusively French Project? 206MAY DAVIEChapter 10 Local Wishes and National Commands: Planning Continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s 230JOE NASRPART 4 FOREIGN EXPERTS, LOCAL PROFESSIONALS 263Chapter 11 Foreign Hires: French Experts and the Urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907–32 265ALICIA NOVICKChapter 12 Politics, Ideology and Professional Interests: Foreign versus Local Planners in Lebanon under President Chehab 290ERIC VERDEILChapter 13 Towards Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316RAY BROMLEYContributors Biographies 341Index 345

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.

“…an interesting read…well worth reading about…” (Building Engineer, January 04)

• Preface viiIntroduction: Transporting Planning xiJOE NASR AND MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 1 Writing Transnational Planning Histories 1ANTHONY D. KINGPART 1 THE LATEST MODELS 15Chapter 2 Making Cairo Modern (1870–1950): Multiple Models for a ‘European-style’ Urbanism 17MERCEDES VOLAITChapter 3 The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and its Colonies 51CAROLA HEINChapter 4 Learning from the US: the Americanisation of Western Urban Planning 83STEPHEN V. WARDPART 2 CITY-BUILDING, STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING 107Chapter 5 Urbanism as Social Engineering in the Balkans: Reform Prospects and Implementation Problems inThessaloniki 109ALEXANDRA YEROLYMPOSChapter 6 From ‘Cosmopolitan Fantasies’ to ‘National Traditions’: Socialist Realism in East Berlin 128ROLAND W. STROBELChapter 7 The Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Egyptian Eyes: The Case of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 155ALAA EL-HABASHIPART 3 POWERFUL SUBJECTS 185Chapter 8 From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the OttomanEmpire around 1870 187NORA LAFIChapter 9 Beirut and the Étoile Area: An Exclusively French Project? 206MAY DAVIEChapter 10 Local Wishes and National Commands: Planning Continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s 230JOE NASRPART 4 FOREIGN EXPERTS, LOCAL PROFESSIONALS 263Chapter 11 Foreign Hires: French Experts and the Urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907–32 265ALICIA NOVICKChapter 12 Politics, Ideology and Professional Interests: Foreign versus Local Planners in Lebanon under President Chehab 290ERIC VERDEILChapter 13 Towards Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316RAY BROMLEYContributors Biographies 341Index 345