French colonial Dakar : the morphogenesis of an African regional capital / Liora Bigon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bigon, Liora, 1974-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Senegal--Dakar--History.

City planning.

History.

Dakar (Senegal)--History.

Dakar (Senegal).

Senegal--Dakar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Foreword by Xavier Ricou; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter one Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African regional capital; A note on historiography; Colonial Dakar; Book time span and chapters; Notes; Chapter two Planting the flag and military planning in imperial Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions; Introduction; The official encounter; Colonial beginnings; The project of Senegal: metropolitan training; Planning imprints.

Military structuresA master plan for Dakar; Notes; Chapter three Street naming, infectious diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights; Introduction; Names, norms and forms: a preliminary note; The first street names of Dakar: the colonial perspective; Later developments in colonial street names in Dakar; From the 'Plateau' to the 'Médina': terminologies of colonial urban landscape; Street and place names: indigenous perspectives and the Dakarois context; Between racial spatiality and sanitary policy in early colonial Dakar.

The 1914 plague and the establishment of Dakar's 'Médina'The inter-colonial conference on yellow fever, Dakar, 1928; The Dakar conference: international aspects; The Dakar conference: segregationist aspects; Notes; Chapter four The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented traditions and ideologies ... ; Introduction; Invented traditions, historiography and the contextual framework; Marché Kermel: looking for an appropriate style?; A glimpse of neo-classicist Dakar: the style of the conqueror; Marché Kermel: finding an appropriate style?

The style of the protector: an architectural solution?A glimpse of marché Sandaga and neo-Sudanese Dakar; Notes; Chapter five Afterword: Dakar's 'old city' and beyond; Notes; Appendix Key events in colonial Dakar, 1850s-1930s; Bibliography; Archival sources; Archives Nationales du Sénégal (ANS); Cambridge University Library, Map Collection; The National Archives, Kew (TNA); Nigeria's National Archives, Ibadan (NNA); Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, Cambridge; Newspapers; Printed sources; Index.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: French Colonial Dakar

ISBN:

9781784997427

1784997420

Publisher Number:

99987166253

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