Liora Bigon

French colonial Dakar

The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

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Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles the design of Dakar as a regional capital, and suggests a connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099359
• ISBN-10: 0719099358
• Artikelnr.: 42797060

Autorenporträt

Liora Bigon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Western Cultures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African
regional capital 2. Planting the flag and military planning in imperial
Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions 3. Street naming, infectious
diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights 4.
The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented
traditions and ideologies in colonial Dakar 5. Afterword: Dakar's 'old
city' and beyond Bibliography Index