Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Description:

xxi, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

9780415632294 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415632293 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415632300 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415632307 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781315797311
1315797313
9781317753162 (ePub ebook)
9781317753179 (PDF ebook)
9781317753155 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

City planning Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonial influence.
City planning Africa, Sub-Saharan History.
City planning.
Colonial influence.
Stadtplanung
Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonial influence.
Afrique subsaharienne Influence coloniale.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Subsaharisches Afrika

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Silva, Carlos Nunes, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295248
Call No.: BIB 241379
Status: Available