Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal Paperback / softback
by Liora Bigon, Eric Ross
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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 precolonial grid-plan design tradition of this country has become entangled with French colonial urban grid-planning, and with present-day, hybrid, planning cultures.
By thus, it transcends the classic precolonial-colonial-postcolonial metahistorical divides. This properly illustrated book consists of five chapters, including an introductory chapter (historiography, theory and context) and a concluding chapter.
The chapters’ text has both a chronological and thematic rationale, aimed at enhancing Islamic Studies by situating sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanism within mainstream research on the Muslim World; and at contributing directly to the wider project of de-Eurocentrizing urban planning history by developing a more inclusive, truly global, urban history.
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- Pages:210 pages, 69 Illustrations, color; 51 Illustrations, black and white; XXIV, 210 p. 120 illus., 69 i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:26/08/2021
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- ISBN:9783030295288
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:210 pages, 69 Illustrations, color; 51 Illustrations, black and white; XXIV, 210 p. 120 illus., 69 i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:26/08/2021
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- ISBN:9783030295288