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1 online resource |
| Series |
Studies in imperialism |
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Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 'Médina': 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 |
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The 1914 plague and the establishment of Dakar's 'Médina'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; Marché Kermel: looking for an appropriate style?; A glimpse of neo-classicist Dakar: the style of the conqueror; Marché Kermel: finding an appropriate style? |
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The style of the protector: an architectural solution?A glimpse of marché 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 Sénégal (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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Senegal -- Dakar -- History
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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City planning
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| SUBJECT |
Dakar (Senegal) -- History
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| Subject |
Senegal -- Dakar
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781784997427 |
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1784997420 |
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9781784997861 |
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1784997862 |
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