Verandahs of power : colonialism and space in urban Africa / Garth Andrew Myers.

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Myers, Garth Andrew.

Title & Author:

Verandahs of power : colonialism and space in urban Africa / Garth Andrew Myers.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Description:

xxii, 199 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Space, place, and society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
Enframing and reframing African cities -- Interstitiality of colonial lives -- Colonial Nairobi -- Colonial Lusaka -- Colonial Zanzibar -- Revolutionary Zanzibar -- Lilongwe -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settingsdasha revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different "verandahs of power," or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human experiences of that power."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

0815629729 (hardcover (cloth) ; alk. paper)
9780815629726 (hardcover (cloth) ; alk. paper)
0815629974 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780815629979 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Africa.
Postcolonialism Africa.
Urbanisme Afrique.
Postcolonialisme Afrique.
Kenya.
Zanzibar.
Zambia.
Malawi.
colonialism.
urban history.
capitals.
City planning
Postcolonialism
Stadtplanung
Postkolonialismus
Steden.
Koloniale periode.
Urban geography Africa.
Africa
Afrika

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Location: Library main 307022
Call No.: BIB 252564
Status: Available

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