French colonial Dakar : the morphogenesis of an African regional capital / Liora Bigon.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Foreword by Xavier Ricou; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter one Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African regional capital; A note on historiography; Colonial Dakar; Book time span and chapters; Notes; Chapter two Planting the flag and military planning in imperial Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions; Introduction; The official encounter; Colonial beginnings; The project of Senegal: metropolitan training; Planning imprints.

Military structuresA master plan for Dakar; Notes; Chapter three Street naming, infectious diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights; Introduction; Names, norms and forms: a preliminary note; The first street names of Dakar: the colonial perspective; Later developments in colonial street names in Dakar; From the 'Plateau' to the 'M�edina': terminologies of colonial urban landscape; Street and place names: indigenous perspectives and the Dakarois context; Between racial spatiality and sanitary policy in early colonial Dakar.

The 1914 plague and the establishment of Dakar's 'M�edina'The inter-colonial conference on yellow fever, Dakar, 1928; The Dakar conference: international aspects; The Dakar conference: segregationist aspects; Notes; Chapter four The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented traditions and ideologies ... ; Introduction; Invented traditions, historiography and the contextual framework; March�e Kermel: looking for an appropriate style?; A glimpse of neo-classicist Dakar: the style of the conqueror; March�e Kermel: finding an appropriate style?

The style of the protector: an architectural solution?A glimpse of march�e Sandaga and neo-Sudanese Dakar; Notes; Chapter five Afterword: Dakar's 'old city' and beyond; Notes; Appendix Key events in colonial Dakar, 1850s-1930s; Bibliography; Archival sources; Archives Nationales du S�en�egal (ANS); Cambridge University Library, Map Collection; The National Archives, Kew (TNA); Nigeria's National Archives, Ibadan (NNA); Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, Cambridge; Newspapers; Printed sources; Index.

This book deals with the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban politics, policies and practices, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual levels. The study of the extra-European planning history of Europe has been a burgeoning field in scholarly literature. By exploring colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa, a relatively untreated reg.

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