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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2015
      19 March 2015
      ISBN:
      9781107298033
      9781107057173
      9781107679993
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107298033
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Politics and International Relations
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Politics and International Relations
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    This is a highly original account of the design and development of Pakistan's capital city; one of the most iconic and ambitious urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. Balancing archival research with fresh, theoretical insights, Markus Daechsel surveys the successes and failures of Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis's most ambitious endeavour, Islamabad, analysing how the project not only changed the international order, but the way in which the Pakistani state operated in the 1950s and 1960s. In dissecting Doxiadis's fraught encounter with Pakistani policy makers, bureaucrats and ordinary citizens, the book offers an unprecedented account of Islamabad's place in post-war international development. Daechsel provides new insights into this period and explores the history of development as a charged, transnational venture between foreign consultants and donors on the one side and the postcolonial nation state on the other.

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    'In conclusion, Markus Daechsel's book offers a fine-grained and sophisticated analysis of the complex and deeply conflicted inter-face between development and post-colonial state formation, and is relevant for those who study South Asia and also for scholars of urban history, urban studies/planning, development studies …'

    Nausheen H. Anwar Source: Journal of Historical Geography

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