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Port Sudan - The Evolution Of A Colonial City (Paperback)
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Port Sudan - The Evolution Of A Colonial City (Paperback)
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In 1904, only the unimposing tomb of a local holy man occupied the
site chosen by British officials for the construction of a modern
seaport to facilitate the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's expanded commerce.
Built where no urban center had previously existed, Port Sudan was
the quintessential colonial city, created and designed by
Europeans, who organized its municipal services and devised the
regulations for its day-to-day management. The advantages of a
created city were clear: The colonial government did not need to
accommodate an indigenous urban population with its own existing
social structures, institutions, and cultural values. This study
examines the efforts of Port Sudan's builders and early
administrators to tailor the urban environment to their own notions
of the ideal colonial city-how it should look, how it should
function, and how its human components should interact. It then
focuses on the inter-war period, describing how the rapid growth of
Port Sudan and its harbor posed insurmountable challenges to the
maintenance of this ideal. Although the Sudanese population within
the city steadily increased, their exclusion from any meaningful
participation in municipal affairs during these troubled years left
them physically and psychologically isolated. The situation began
to change after World War II, but, as the study reveals, conditions
in the post-war era only compounded long-standing political,
economic, and social problems in Port Sudan, ensuring that the city
the Sudanese inherited in 1956 still bore the marks of its colonial
origins.
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