Table of contents:
Introduction. Place of British Imperialism in forming distinctive character of British planning system; Literature and theoretical review; Town planning defined; Historic overview of British Empire and political structures; Population migration patterns; Emergence of professions
The 'Grand Model of colonial town planning
'A great workshop': Managing trade and labour in the tropical colonies. Labour requirements of tropical colonies and port-cities; Growth of industrialization and great port cities (Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lagos); Founding new tropical cities: Light in Penang, Raffles in Singapore; Ethnic separation in cities; Colonial approaches to labour shortage and housing provision (staff housing, indentured labour housing); Ideas of local government and municipal corporations; Public health arguments (overcrowding, water supply, plague & other epidemics); Major public works projects: roads, canals, public buildings, port expansion; Rise of the improvement board after 1990 (India, Burma, Singapore), and attempts at public housing; achivements assessed; Industrial towns in colonies (Jamshedpur, Vanderbijlstad). Race, segregation and Indirect Rule. Association of segregation with colonialism, and origins of term (Manson medical connection); Lack of zoning in early colonies (e.g. trading towns plantations); Importance of India and Indian Mutiny (military barracks, cantonments, physical separation); Physical planning aspects of Lugardian Indirect Rule doctrine (European reservation, building-free zone, Native Reservation), and application in practice (Nigeria, Southern Africa); Decline of racial zoning (comparisons with U.S.A.), except in South Africa. The rise of the professional town planner. Influence of colonial models upon garden city movement and residential layout; New Delhi symbolism on Imperial dominance; C.C. Reade as town planning missionary (Britain, Australia, Malaya, Northern Rhodesia); Lusaka as colonial garden city; Recruitment of town planning officers into colonial service (Thompson in Nigeria), with Colonial Office support; Town and regional planning to meet local political demands (e.g. work of McLean in Egypt); Spread of town planning legislation before Second World War: influence of Bombay Town Planning Act 1915 (land reapportionment); Trinidad Town and Regional Planning Ordinance 1938. Colonialism and traditional culture. Pre-colonial urban traditions (Islamic, Indian, Chinese, African), and town planning ideas; Debates over racial superiority, and extent of intervention in indigenous culture (anti-malaria measures and water tanks in India); Perceptions of household and social structures; preservation of traditional cities (Nigeria, Jerusalem), and conservation of monuments (role of Curzon); Land policy (aboriginal and land rights, Malay reservations, Native Lands policy in Nigeria. Town planning and decolonization. Importance of planning (urban housing, village reconstruction) in Commonwealth Development and Welfare projects after 1940; Planning for post-war population displacements: Palestine/Israel, resettlement villages in Malaya, new towns in partitioned India/Pakistan; Importance of physical planning to newly independent governments (regional planning, new towns, new state capitals). The colonial legacy. Characteristics of colonial planning of built environment: anti-urban segragationist, public health dominated; Influence of colonial past upon British planning (green belts, new town managers, colonial service recruitment into inspectorate); surviving institutional structures in post-colonial rapid urbanization. Sources and references. Index
The transfer by the British of colonial town planning to the colonies, and the influence such shifts have had on world urbanization, are examined in this thoughtful study. Regulatory tools for planning controls and other management approaches are examined in the light of rapid urban growth in many developing countries.
This book looks at the transfer of British planning legislation to the colonies and the influence of this transfer on world urbanization and present urban management approaches.
Introduction. Place of British Imperialism in forming distinctive character of British planning system; Literature and theoretical review; Town planning defined; Historic overview of British Empire and political structures; Population migration patterns; Emergence of professions
The 'Grand Model of colonial town planning
'A great workshop': Managing trade and labour in the tropical colonies. Labour requirements of tropical colonies and port-cities; Growth of industrialization and great port cities (Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Lagos); Founding new tropical cities: Light in Penang, Raffles in Singapore; Ethnic separation in cities; Colonial approaches to labour shortage and housing provision (staff housing, indentured labour housing); Ideas of local government and municipal corporations; Public health arguments (overcrowding, water supply, plague & other epidemics); Major public works projects: roads, canals, public buildings, port expansion; Rise of the improvement board after 1990 (India, Burma, Singapore), and attempts at public housing; achivements assessed; Industrial towns in colonies (Jamshedpur, Vanderbijlstad). Race, segregation and Indirect Rule. Association of segregation with colonialism, and origins of term (Manson medical connection); Lack of zoning in early colonies (e.g. trading towns plantations); Importance of India and Indian Mutiny (military barracks, cantonments, physical separation); Physical planning aspects of Lugardian Indirect Rule doctrine (European reservation, building-free zone, Native Reservation), and application in practice (Nigeria, Southern Africa); Decline of racial zoning (comparisons with U.S.A.), except in South Africa. The rise of the professional town planner. Influence of colonial models upon garden city movement and residential layout; New Delhi symbolism on Imperial dominance; C.C. Reade as town planning missionary (Britain, Australia, Malaya, Northern Rhodesia); Lusaka as colonial garden city; Recruitment of town planning officers into colonial service (Thompson in Nigeria), with Colonial Office support; Town and regional planning to meet local political demands (e.g. work of McLean in Egypt); Spread of town planning legislation before Second World War: influence of Bombay Town Planning Act 1915 (land reapportionment); Trinidad Town and Regional Planning Ordinance 1938. Colonialism and traditional culture. Pre-colonial urban traditions (Islamic, Indian, Chinese, African), and town planning ideas; Debates over racial superiority, and extent of intervention in indigenous culture (anti-malaria measures and water tanks in India); Perceptions of household and social structures; preservation of traditional cities (Nigeria, Jerusalem), and conservation of monuments (role of Curzon); Land policy (aboriginal and land rights, Malay reservations, Native Lands policy in Nigeria. Town planning and decolonization. Importance of planning (urban housing, village reconstruction) in Commonwealth Development and Welfare projects after 1940; Planning for post-war population displacements: Palestine/Israel, resettlement villages in Malaya, new towns in partitioned India/Pakistan; Importance of physical planning to newly independent governments (regional planning, new towns, new state capitals). The colonial legacy. Characteristics of colonial planning of built environment: anti-urban segragationist, public health dominated; Influence of colonial past upon British planning (green belts, new town managers, colonial service recruitment into inspectorate); surviving institutional structures in post-colonial rapid urbanization. Sources and references. Index
The transfer by the British of colonial town planning to the colonies, and the influence such shifts have had on world urbanization, are examined in this thoughtful study. Regulatory tools for planning controls and other management approaches are examined in the light of rapid urban growth in many developing countries.
This book looks at the transfer of British planning legislation to the colonies and the influence of this transfer on world urbanization and present urban management approaches.