Isenstadt, Sandy. <br/><br/>
Modernism and the Middle East :  Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (315 pages) 
 - Studies in Modernity and National Identity Series .
 - Studies in Modernity and National Identity Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East:The Burden of Representation -- Part I: Colonial Constructions -- 1. Jerusalem Remade -- 2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya -- Part II: Building the Nation -- 3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad -- 4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building -- 5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s -- 6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel -- 7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem -- 8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo -- Part III: Overviews and Openings -- 9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge -- 10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780295800301 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Modernism (Aesthetics) - Middle East - History - 20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2543.S6 -- M58 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1/0309560904