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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...
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781784997427 |