Forms of Dominance

Nezar AlSayyad is an architect, planner, urban historian and a public intellectual. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Planning, at the University of California at Berkeley where he was Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for two decades. In 1988, AlSayyad co-founded the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) and served as its first President for two decades, and he still serves as the Editor of the Association’s highly acclaimed peer-reviewed journal Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR). AlSayyad writings have spanned many disciplines including research on tradition, heritage and globalization and their connection to the built environment. He is the author, co-author, or editor of many books among them: Forms of Dominance (1992); Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage (2001); The End of Tradition (2003); Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel to Real (2006); The Fundamentalist City (2012); and Traditions: The Real, the Hyper and the Virtual in the Built Environment (2014); and the major Encyclopedic volume Cairo: The Routledge Handbook of Histories, Representations and Discourses, 2023. AlSayyad is the recipient of many grants and awards for his research and in 2008, the University of California at Berkeley awarded him, the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest honor Berkeley bestows on its faculty. In 2015, AlSayyad was awarded a Distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship.

• New Series Introduction to the Reissue David Canter and David Stea. New Preface. Preface. 1. Urbanism and the Dominance Equation: Reflections on Colonialism and National Identity Nezar AlSayyad 2. The Islamic City as a Colonial Enterprise Nezar AlSayyad 3. From Suprabarangay to Colonial Capital: Reflections on the Hispanic Foundation of Manila Robert Reed 4. City as Durbar: Theater and Power in Imperial Delhi Hosagrahar Jyoti 5. Pondicherry: A French Enclave in India Preeti Chopra 6. Before the Instant City: San Francisco’s Colonial Origins Reconsidered Eric Sandweiss 7. Colonialism, Modernity: The French in Morocco Paul Rabinow 8. Le Corbusier and Algiers: The Plan Obus as Colonial Urbanism Michele Lamprakos 9. Building Power: Italian Architecture and Urbanism in Libya and Ethiopia Mia Fuller 10. Creating the Traditional City: A French Project Shirine Hamadeh 11. Cities of the Stalinist Empire Greg Castillo 12. Continued Colonization in the New World: Model Villages in the Guatemalan Highlands Nina Veregge 13. Designing National Identity: Post-Colonial Capitols as Intercultural Dilemmas Lawrence Vale 14. Rethinking Colonialism: An Epilogue Anthony King. Note on Contributors.