01742nam 2200373 450 991061731030332120230513104126.01-4780-2250-7(CKB)5100000000116980(NjHacI)995100000000116980(EXLCZ)99510000000011698020230513d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArchitecture and development Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the settler colonial imagination, 1958-1973 /Ayala LevinDurham :Duke University Press,2022.1 online resource (xi, 308 pages)1-4780-1788-0 Settler Colonial Expertise in the Theater of Development -- Fast-Tracking the Nation-State: The Design and Construction of the Sierra Leone Parliament -- Rootedness and Open-Ended Planning: The Sierra Leone National Urbanization Plan -- Planning a Postcolonial University Campus: The University of Ife, Nigeria -- Designing the University of Ife: Climate, Regeneration, and Ornament -- Israeli Aid, Private Entrepreneurship, and Architectural Education in Addis Ababa -- Ghosts of Modernity."Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa."-- Provided by publisher.Architecture and DevelopmentArchitectureArchitecture.720Levin Ayala1357218NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910617310303321Architecture and development3362737UNINA02817nam 2200565 a 450 991077925280332120230802005356.01-280-99567-X97866137672880-8157-2193-5(CKB)2550000000104623(EBL)951312(OCoLC)830170711(SSID)ssj0000687731(PQKBManifestationID)11451133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687731(PQKBWorkID)10755988(PQKB)10886115(MiAaPQ)EBC951312(Au-PeEL)EBL951312(CaPaEBR)ebr10576416(CaONFJC)MIL376728(EXLCZ)99255000000010462320120706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCatalysts for change[electronic resource] how the UN's independent experts promote human rights /Ted PicconeWashington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press20121 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8157-2192-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Who are the UN's independent human rights experts? -- Findings on effectiveness: country visits and communications -- Independence under the blue flag: relationship with the United Nations -- Style matters: the quality of special procedures work -- Bringing implementation home: the role of states -- Working with the independent sector -- The future of special procedures -- Appendixes: A. experts working group members -- B. HRC Resolution 5/1, institution building -- HRC resolution 5/2, code of conduct -- List of independent experts -- E. human Rights Council members -- F. communications and country visits: examples of impact -- G. breakdown of state responses to communications -- H. status of country visits -- I. Note on methodology note -- J. Brookings/OSJI/UPR-Watch summary recommendations."Examines the effectiveness of a key endeavor by the United Nations to monitor and influence human rights through a unique body of independent experts, appointed by countries to investigate, analyze, and report on the whole spectrum of human rights problems around the world"--Provided by publisher.Human rightsInternational cooperationHuman rights monitoringHuman rightsInternational cooperation.Human rights monitoring.341.4/8Piccone Theodore J1515770MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779252803321Catalysts for change3751774UNINA