Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested HistoriesFassil Demissie Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012 - 438 páginas Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment purposely suited to the administrative apparatus of empire: architecture and urbanism sought to project the authority of the European powers while simultaneously stabilizing the fragile European identity at the colonial frontier. This book seeks to uncover the multiple ways in which colonial architectural and urban design practices reconstituted colonial cities in Africa. |
Contenido
Its Revival in Europe and | 85 |
The Turning Point in Urban Policy for British Colonial Africa | 131 |
Migrant Labour and the Cultural Semiotics | 153 |
Montcassin Montserrat or an Alcazar? | 277 |
The Grid of SaintLouis du Sénégal | 295 |
Ernst Mays 1947 Kampala Plan | 373 |
designed 193839 built 194751 | 393 |
nineteenthcentury Benguela 2005 | 414 |
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