Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell

Englisch

Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2011

XII, 378 S. : Ill., Kt.

Includes bibliographical references (p, 347-357) and index

978-0-253-22255-8*pbk. : alk. paper

978-0-253-35543-0*hbk : alk. paper

Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.

*Sansibar <Stadt> / Kolonialstadt / Städtebau / Stadtplanung

*City planning -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History ; Sociology, Urban -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History ; Zanzibar -- History ; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HT169.T332

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: [22] 307.7609678/1

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: LB 72549

Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present

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