Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal

Bigon, Liora/ Ross, Eric

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030295257

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface.- List of Figures.- Bibliography.- Chapter 1. Grid Plan Cultures, Historiographic Traditions and Africa.- Chapter 2. Grid Plan Traditions in Senegal: Contemporary Muslim Towns and their Historical Formalistic Origins.- Chapter 3. Configuring the French Colonial Grid in Senegal: Comptoirs, Escales, Villages de Liberté and Capital Cities.- Chapter 4. Current Planning Interactions: What Is Going On Beneath the Grids of Senegal's Cities Today [in collaboration with Tom Hart*].- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Disentangling the Grid.- Index.