Garden cities and colonial planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine
[Book Description]
This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. The socio-political, geographical and cultural implications are analysed here through case studies from the global South, namely from French and British colonial territories in Africa as well as from Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. The book focuses on the transnational aspects of the garden city, taking into account frameworks and documentation that extend beyond national borders, and includes contributions from an international network of specialists. Their comparative views and geographical focus challenge the conventional, Eurocentric approach to garden cities, and will interest students and scholars of planning history and colonial history.
[Table of Contents]
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Series editor's introduction xi
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Garden cities and colonial 1 (34)
planning: transnationality and urban ideas in
Africa and Palestine
Liora Bigon
PART I Garden cities and colonial Africa
1 Symbolic usage of the `garden city' 35 (15)
concept during the French Protectorate in
Morocco: from the Howardian model to garden
housing estates
Charlotte Jelidi
2 From metropolitan to colonial planning: 50 (24)
Dakar between garden city and cite-jardin
Liora Bigon
3 The `plateau' in West African, 74 (24)
French-speaking colonial towns: between
garden and city
Alain Sinou
4 The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: 98 (25)
Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow
Garth Andrew Myers
Makame Ali Muhajir
PART II Garden cities in colonial and
Mandatory Palestine (Eretz Israel)
5 `May be solved by the construction of 123 (21)
garden cities': German-Jewish literary
proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel
Ines Sander
6 Urban development and the `garden city': 144 (23)
examples from late Ottoman-era Palestine
and the late British Mandate
Yossi Katz
Liora Bigon
7 Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: 167 (23)
the case of Tel Aviv
Miki Zaidman
Ruth Kark
Afterword: multilateral channels, garden cities 190 (5)
and colonial planning
Liora Bigon
Yossi Katz
Index 195
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