Burak Erdim is an assistant professor of architectural history at North Carolina State University.

A meticulous investigation of the founding years of [Middle East Technical University] (1954–1969) in the broader context of the postwar politics of planning, design and technical assistance…Erdim’s book is full of insights from his detective-like and eye-opening work about both the cooperation and the struggles that marked the funding, administration, curriculum, location and design of METU...With its beautiful display of plans and photographs, Landed Internationals will be deeply evocative for anyone who has walked down the campus allÉe, the long pedestrian walkway connecting its diverse set of buildings and students. It is a richly textured book that meticulously demonstrates the role that housing and planning experts played in contestations over postwar visions of nation-building, development and expertise. (Middle East Research and Information Project) [A] highly stimulating study...this book is a precious contribution to present trends in historiography that insist on the necessity to critically analyse the notion of models and their circulation, and focus on the dynamics of constant interaction and mutual redefinition of international expertise and local societies. (Planning Perspectives)

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. Housing Internationals and the Postwar World Order1. Encounters in Housing and Land Economics2. Redefining Technical Assistance: From Policy to Training and Education3. An Institute or a University? Assembling Experts and Inperts4. A New Industrial Order: The Forum and the Nation5. The Campus and the National Imaginary: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood6. Stewards of the Land: Culture, Currency, and the NationEpilogue. METU at Large: METU as RevolutionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Burak Erdim is an assistant professor of architectural history at North Carolina State University.

A meticulous investigation of the founding years of [Middle East Technical University] (1954–1969) in the broader context of the postwar politics of planning, design and technical assistance…Erdim’s book is full of insights from his detective-like and eye-opening work about both the cooperation and the struggles that marked the funding, administration, curriculum, location and design of METU...With its beautiful display of plans and photographs, Landed Internationals will be deeply evocative for anyone who has walked down the campus allÉe, the long pedestrian walkway connecting its diverse set of buildings and students. It is a richly textured book that meticulously demonstrates the role that housing and planning experts played in contestations over postwar visions of nation-building, development and expertise. (Middle East Research and Information Project) [A] highly stimulating study...this book is a precious contribution to present trends in historiography that insist on the necessity to critically analyse the notion of models and their circulation, and focus on the dynamics of constant interaction and mutual redefinition of international expertise and local societies. (Planning Perspectives)

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. Housing Internationals and the Postwar World Order1. Encounters in Housing and Land Economics2. Redefining Technical Assistance: From Policy to Training and Education3. An Institute or a University? Assembling Experts and Inperts4. A New Industrial Order: The Forum and the Nation5. The Campus and the National Imaginary: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood6. Stewards of the Land: Culture, Currency, and the NationEpilogue. METU at Large: METU as RevolutionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Burak Erdim is an assistant professor of architectural history at North Carolina State University.

A meticulous investigation of the founding years of [Middle East Technical University] (1954–1969) in the broader context of the postwar politics of planning, design and technical assistance…Erdim’s book is full of insights from his detective-like and eye-opening work about both the cooperation and the struggles that marked the funding, administration, curriculum, location and design of METU...With its beautiful display of plans and photographs, Landed Internationals will be deeply evocative for anyone who has walked down the campus allÉe, the long pedestrian walkway connecting its diverse set of buildings and students. It is a richly textured book that meticulously demonstrates the role that housing and planning experts played in contestations over postwar visions of nation-building, development and expertise. (Middle East Research and Information Project) [A] highly stimulating study...this book is a precious contribution to present trends in historiography that insist on the necessity to critically analyse the notion of models and their circulation, and focus on the dynamics of constant interaction and mutual redefinition of international expertise and local societies. (Planning Perspectives)

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. Housing Internationals and the Postwar World Order1. Encounters in Housing and Land Economics2. Redefining Technical Assistance: From Policy to Training and Education3. An Institute or a University? Assembling Experts and Inperts4. A New Industrial Order: The Forum and the Nation5. The Campus and the National Imaginary: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood6. Stewards of the Land: Culture, Currency, and the NationEpilogue. METU at Large: METU as RevolutionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex