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Modernization and the Role of Foreign Experts: W. M. Dudok9s Projects for Izmir, Turkey, focuses on Dudok9s unrealized mid-twentieth-century projects for Izmir, viewing them within the context of foreign architects’ and planning experts’ entanglements in Turkish modernization. Using recently uncovered materials (scaled drawings, sketches, photographs, notes, maps, and letters) from the Dudok archives at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, and Ahmet Piristina City Archive and Museum, Izmir, Meltem O. Gurel opens a window into the postwar era9s complex landscape of intersecting local and global architectural cultures. Analysis of these documents sheds light on modernization9s ubiquitous impact on architecture and urbanism, and exposes the changing roles of international (i.e., European and American) experts operating in Turkey before and after World War II.