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Garden cities and colonial planning : transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine
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This title presents a study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense, and the ways these were transmitted, diffused, and diverted in vari...
This title presents a study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense, and the ways these were transmitted, diffused, and diverted in various colonial territories and situations.
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- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
- ISBNs
- 9781781707913, 178170791X, 0719090555
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: Garden cities and colonial Africa: Symbolic usage of the "garden city" concept during the French Protectorate of Morocco : from the Howardian model to garden housing estates / Charlotte Jelidi. From metropolitan to colonial planning : Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin / Liora Bigon. The "plateau" in West African, French-speaking colonial towns : between garden and city / Alain Sinou. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan : Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow / Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali Muhajir -- Garden cities in in colonial and Mandatory Palestine (Eretz Israel): "May be solved by the construction of garden cities" : German Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel / Ines Sonder. Urban development in the "garden city" : examples from late Ottoman-era Palestine and the late British Mandate / Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine : the case of Tel Aviv / Miki Zaidman and Ruth Kark -- Afterword: Multilateral cities and colonial planning / Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz
Subjects
- Garden cities -- History -- Africa
- Garden cities -- History -- Palestine
- City planning -- History -- Africa
- City planning -- History -- Palestine
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Administration -- History.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History.
- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History.