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French colonial Dakar : The morphogenesis of an African regional capital /
This book deals with the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urba...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a French colonial Dakar : |b The morphogenesis of an African regional capital / |c Liora Bigon. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Manchester : |b Manchester University Press, |c 2016. | |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Studies in imperialism | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Foreword by Xavier Ricou; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter one Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African regional capital; A note on historiography; Colonial Dakar; Book time span and chapters; Notes; Chapter two Planting the flag and military planning in imperial Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions; Introduction; The official encounter; Colonial beginnings; The project of Senegal: metropolitan training; Planning imprints. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Military structuresA master plan for Dakar; Notes; Chapter three Street naming, infectious diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights; Introduction; Names, norms and forms: a preliminary note; The first street names of Dakar: the colonial perspective; Later developments in colonial street names in Dakar; From the 'Plateau' to the 'Medina': terminologies of colonial urban landscape; Street and place names: indigenous perspectives and the Dakarois context; Between racial spatiality and sanitary policy in early colonial Dakar. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The 1914 plague and the establishment of Dakar's 'Medina'The inter-colonial conference on yellow fever, Dakar, 1928; The Dakar conference: international aspects; The Dakar conference: segregationist aspects; Notes; Chapter four The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented traditions and ideologies ... ; Introduction; Invented traditions, historiography and the contextual framework; Marche Kermel: looking for an appropriate style?; A glimpse of neo-classicist Dakar: the style of the conqueror; Marche Kermel: finding an appropriate style? | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The style of the protector: an architectural solution?A glimpse of marche Sandaga and neo-Sudanese Dakar; Notes; Chapter five Afterword: Dakar's 'old city' and beyond; Notes; Appendix Key events in colonial Dakar, 1850s-1930s; Bibliography; Archival sources; Archives Nationales du Senegal (ANS); Cambridge University Library, Map Collection; The National Archives, Kew (TNA); Nigeria's National Archives, Ibadan (NNA); Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, Cambridge; Newspapers; Printed sources; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This book deals with the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban politics, policies and practices, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual levels. The study of the extra-European planning history of Europe has been a burgeoning field in scholarly literature. By exploring colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa, a relatively untreated reg. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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