Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested HistoriesFassil Demissie Routledge, 2016 M12 5 - 456 páginas Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts, police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects, planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the wider colonial project in Africa. |
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1985 | |
Libyan | |
Arab Urban Enclaves on the East African Coast | |
Its Revival in Europe and its Appearance | |
Layers of Power and Hybrid Identities | |
The Turning Point in Urban Policy for British Colonial Africa 19391945 | |
Migrant Labour and the Cultural Semiotics of Harare Mbare | |
Anglicanism and Ecclesiastical Architecture in Southern | |
Montcassin Montserrat or an Alcazar? Architecture Propaganda | |
The Grid of SaintLouis du Sénégal | |
Interrogating | |
The Culture of British Fabrics | |
Ernst Mays 1947 Kampala Plan as Cultural Programme | |
Past Functions and Recent Appropriations | |
An Essay on Prison Designs in Colonial Senegal | |
Changing Spatial Strategies in the Missionary | |
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