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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa - Intertwined and Contested Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa - Intertwined and Contested Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Design and the Built Environment
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Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space:
ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting
the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of
science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial
powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping the present and
the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial
Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between
architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in
Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts,
police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and
maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and
urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social
structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and
urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the
volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from
different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of
colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the
dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects,
planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a
hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the
wider colonial project in Africa.
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