Urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa : colonial and post-colonial planning cultures / Carlos Nunes Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silva, Carlos Nunes, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Colonial influence.

City planning.

City planning--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

Colonial influence.

History.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Colonial influence.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Physical Description:

xxi, 305 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction / Carlos Nunes Silva

Urban planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overview / Carlos Nunes Silva

The IFHTP discourse on urbanism in colonial Africa between the wars / Renzo Riboldazzi

Colonial urban planning in anglophone Africa / Robert Home

Colonial planning concept and postcolonial realities. The influence of British planning culture in Tanzania, South Africa and Ghana / Wolfgang Scholz, Peter Robinson and Tanya Dayaram

French colonial urbanism in Africa / Ambe J. Njoh

The grid plan in the history of Senegalese urban design / Eric Ross

Architecture and town planning in Italian East Africa during the years of the empire (1936-1941) / Anna Nuzzaci

Colonial cities at the crossroads: Italy and Ethiopia / David Rifkind

The German variation. A sketch of colonial Städtebau in Africa, 1884-1919 / Patrick C. Hege

Crossed colonization. Housing development in urban peripheries. The Hispanic-African colonial territories, 1912/1976/2013 / María Carrascal Pérez, Plácido González Martínez, Laida Memba Ikuga, Alejandro Muchada Suárez, Pablo Rabasco Pozuelo and Pablo Sendra Fernández

Kinshasa's syndrome-planning in historical perspective: from Belgian colonial capital to self- constructed megalopolis / Luce Beeckmans and Johan Lagae

Influence of Croatian urban planners in postcolonial Africa. Urban development plan of Conakry, Guinea, 1963 / Marina Smokvina, Mojca Smode Cvitanovic and Branko Kincl

Reflections on some aspects of town-building at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, during the 1800s of relevance to today / Fabio Todeschini

Valuing possibility: south-south cooperation and participatory budgeting in Maputo, Mozambique / Gabriella Y. Carolini

The developmentalist origins and evolution of planning education in Sub-Saharan Africa, c1940 to 2010 / Nancy Odendaal, James Duminy and Daniel Inkoom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415632294

0415632293

9780415632300

0415632307

OCLC:

853244885