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Author: Ayala Levin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.862kg
ISBN: 9781478015260
ISBN 10: 1478015268
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 11 February 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A remarkable addition to the growing literature on the intrinsic plurality of global development experiences. Placing architectural expertise at the center of knowledge transfer between the newly-formed nation-states of Israel and on the African continent, Ayala Levin depicts state building as a parallel activity being undertaken by both provider and receiver of expertise, undoing received notions about 'developed' and 'underdeveloped' contexts. The sections comparing Israeli approaches toward kibbutzim at home and rural-urban migration patterns in Sierra Leone and Nigeria are nothing short of spectacular. -- Arindam Dutta, author of * The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility * In this rich and wonderfully detailed study, Ayala Levin provides a careful, learned, and multidisciplinary assessment of Israel's architectural and developmental impact in Africa in which the characters and mindsets of Israeli architects and planners come alive. Scholars of Israeli-African relations, African development studies, African and Israeli architecture, and urban planning in the global South will find Levin's expose of Israeli-African geopolitics to be a valuable contribution. -- Garth Myers, author of * Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South *
A remarkable addition to the growing literature on the intrinsic plurality of global development experiences. Placing architectural expertise at the center of knowledge transfer between the newly-formed nation-states of Israel and on the African continent, Ayala Levin depicts state-building as a parallel activity being undertaken by both provider and receiver of expertise, undoing received notions about 'developed' and 'underdeveloped' contexts. The sections comparing Israeli approaches towards kibbutzim at home and rural-urban migration patterns in Sierra Leone and Nigeria are nothing short of spectacular. -- Arindam Dutta, author of * The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility * In this rich and wonderfully detailed study, Ayala Levin provides a careful, learned, and multidisciplinary assessment of Israel's architectural and developmental impact in Africa in which the characters and mindsets of Israeli architects and planners come alive. Scholars of Israeli-African relations, African development studies, African and Israeli architecture, and urban planning in the global South will find Levin's expose of Israeli-African geopolitics to be a valuable contribution. -- Garth A. Myers, author of * Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South *
Author Information
Ayala Levin is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South.
