ABSTRACT
The persistence of orientalist ideas and practices in metropolitan development and planning around the world coincides with the growing infl uence of the approach that was made in the United States of America. Even as the relative role of the U.S. in the global economy declines, and its ability to exercise its military supremacy wanes, U.S. dominance in global communications, fi nance and real estate has placed it in a position to liberally market its model of metropolitan growth around the world. It is also copied, emulated, and independently adapted by the army of architects and planners trained under orientalist masters.
