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Place Names in Africa
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. …
Garden cities and colonial planning
This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. …
Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel
This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and …
French Colonial Dakar
This volume explores 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 …
Splintering Towers of Babel
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town …
Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal
This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal. It does so by analyzing how the …
Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology
This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume. The contributions showcased in this …
Place Names in Africa
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. …
Place Names in Africa
This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. …
Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology
This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume. The contributions showcased in this …
Garden Cities and Colonial Planning
This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. …
The Arts of the Grid
This is the first collection of interdisciplinary scholarship to expand on gridded modalities, with a strong affinity to the arts. It seeks to inspire new avenues of research by …