Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961

Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961 examines the ways in which the architectures of U.S. development programs sought to transform the social, environmental, and urban fabric of the Arab World in the mid-twentieth century. The period b...

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1. Verfasser: Alsayer, Dalal Musaed
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: ABE Journal 2020
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Zusammenfassung:Architecture, Environment, Development: The United States and the Making of Modern Arabia, 1949-1961 examines the ways in which the architectures of U.S. development programs sought to transform the social, environmental, and urban fabric of the Arab World in the mid-twentieth century. The period between the establishment of President Harry S. Truman’s Point Four Program in 1949 and President John F. Kennedy’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1961 saw the genesis of a dis...