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Verandahs of Power - Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Verandahs of Power - Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Space, Place and Society
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List price R990
Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
You Save R444 (45%)
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Focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four
cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar,
and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes
for each city. Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant
contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and
a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of
colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial
inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in
different and divergent postcolonial settings--a revolutionary
left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing
dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban
plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book
traces the experience of the urban planning process through three
different "verandahs of power, " or levels of class depiction: the
colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority.
Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our
understanding of the workings of power in African cities by
addressing human experiences of that power.
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