Garden Cities and Colonial Planning

Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine
Herausgeber: Bigon, Liora; Katz, Yossi

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. The socio-political, geographical and cultural implications are analysed here through case studies from the global South, namely from French and British colonial territories in Africa as well as from Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. The focus on the extra-European planning history of Europe - particularly in Africa and Palestine in the context of the garden city - is unprecedented in research literature, which tends to concentrate on the global North. The book focuses on the transnational aspects of the garden city, taking into account frameworks and documentation that extend beyond national borders, and includes contributions from an international network of specialists including Alain Sinou, Garth Myers and Ruth Kark. The comparative views and geographical focus exhibited here challenge the conventional, Eurocentric approach to garden cities and show that the spread of garden city ideas into colonial territories was not uni-directional. This was an uncontrolled, diffusive process that crossed complex and multiple frontiers, and sometimes moved in quite unexpected directions. In considering this transnational aspect, and recognising the difference between metropolitan and colonial planning cultures, this volume will interest students and scholars of planning history and colonial history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090554
• ISBN-10: 0719090555
• Artikelnr.: 40477699

Autorenporträt

Liora Bigon is a Research Fellow in European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Yossi Katz is Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Garden cities and colonial planning: transnationality and
urban ideas in Africa and Palestine - Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz PART I:
Garden cities and colonial Africa 1. Symbolic usage in the 'garden city'
concept during the French Protectorate in Morocco: from the Howardian model
to garden housing-estates - Charlotte Jelidi 2. From metropolitan to
colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin - Liora Bigon
3. The 'plateau' in West-African, French-speaking colonial towns: between
garden and city - Alain Sinou 4. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan:
Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow - Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali
Muhajir PART II: Garden cities in colonial and mandate Palestine (Eretz
Israel) 5. 'May be solved by the construction of garden cities' (Theodor
Herzl): German-Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel -
Ines Sonder 6. Urban development and the 'garden city': examples from late
Ottoman era Palestine (and notes leading up to the late British Mandate) -
Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon 7. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: the
case of Tel Aviv - Miki Zaidman and Ruth Kark Afterword: Multilateral
channels, garden cities and colonial planning - Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz
Index