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The name Dar es Salaam comes from the Arabic phrase meaning house of peace. A popular but erroneous translation is 'haven of peace' resulting from a mix-up of the Arabic words "dar" (house) and "bandar" (harbour). Named in 1867 by the Sultan of Zanzibar, the town has fo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Collectif Urafiki
Otros Autores: Calas, Bernard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers in association with French Institute for Research in Africa, [2010]
Temas:
Cities and towns > Tanzania.
Urbanization > Tanzania.
Anthropology > Tanzania.
Human geography > Tanzania.
Eritrea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Urbanization
Cities and towns
Anthropology
Human geography
Tanzania
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Form as a pretext for investigating urban changes; Urban form; I. LAND
  • HISTORY: The Domestication of the Agglomeration; The Evolution of Dar es Salaam's Peri-Urban Space During the Period of German Colonisation (1890-1914); I. The colonizers' first attempt at taking charge of the peri-urban space (1891-1895); II
  • State control of the peri-urban zone, 1895
  • 1910; III
  • Colonial Society And Peri-Urban Space Between 1900 And 1914; IV
  • A Socio-Spatial Assessment Of The Integration Of Peri-Urban Space In 1914.
  • General conclusionPublic Housing Policies: Decentralization, government policies and the people's solutions; I
  • Urban management and political decentralization; II
  • Different approaches to public housing policies; III
  • Informal settlement zones: the people take action; Conclusion; Mixity and Territoriality in a Rapidly Expanding City: How Dar es Salaam was shaped by its Suburbs; I- A city marked by dualities; II- A periphery and its territories are born; III- Individual integration within a context of mixity; Conclusion; II. MANAGING SPACE: BETWEEN PLACES AND LINKS.
  • Schools: facilities and places structuring urbanity in Dar es SalaamI
  • Organizing the Tanzanian school system; II
  • Urban integration of schools; III
  • Role players in school: urban practice and city representations; Urban Transport: following the course of free enterprise; I
  • Infrastructures: the withdrawal of public authorities; II
  • Public transport: the indomitable rise of the private sector; Conclusion; Towards a two-tiered city?; I
  • Residential expanse and job concentration; II
  • Place of residence and access to the city; III
  • Transport demands under a lot of pressure.
  • IV
  • Urban development at the risk of withdrawing to the suburbsWater Management. Institutional weaknesses and urban answers: towards a new urbanity?; I. Urban growth and political choices on a national level: factors contributing to management problems in urban services; II
  • Water supply: an ill-adapted service; III
  • From a proliferation of substitution modes to a fragmented system; Conclusions; III. HORIZONS AND EXCHANGED GLANCES; Harbour Landscapes; I- Harbour traffic and the hinterland; II
  • First and foremost among the role players: the ship-owners; III
  • Harbour authorities.
  • IV
  • Integrating the harbour into the continental logistics chainCultural Landscapes: Sedimentation, fusion or mutations?; I
  • Reference sedimentation or cultural recycling?; II
  • Current cultural innovation: urban form, place marking and choreography; III
  • Popular culture's fluctuating markers; IV
  • 'Human comedy' and urban choreography; Dar es Salaam
  • Zanzibar: exchanging glances; I
  • A colonial heritage with a difference; II Zanzibar's decline; III Significant economic relations; IV An increase in human exchange; V Zanzibari feelings of superiority; VI Zanzibar seen from the capital.
  • VII
  • Zanzibar's political crisis and its impact on Dar es Salaam.

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