Introduction

The decolonization of large parts of the world in the second half of the 20th century drastically altered the ways in which architecture and spatial planning, both as practice and as field of knowledge, were enmeshed in global flows of exchange. In particular the politics and economies of foreign a...

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Hauptverfasser: Loosen, Sebastiaan, Sigge, Erik, Mattsson, Helena
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: ABE Journal 2023
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:The decolonization of large parts of the world in the second half of the 20th century drastically altered the ways in which architecture and spatial planning, both as practice and as field of knowledge, were enmeshed in global flows of exchange. In particular the politics and economies of foreign aid shaped these flows of exchange from the 1950s to the late 1980s and gave rise to a whole infrastructure destined to assist the progress of “developing countries” on their “path to development.” ...