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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavours that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. The extra-European planning history of Europe is a burgeoning field in scholarly study and literature, particularly in the last few decades, but there has been a clear tendency to focus on the more privileged colonies in the contemporary colonial order, such as British India and the French colonies in North Africa. Colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa has been left relatively untreated. This book is a pioneer in attesting the connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa.French colonial Dakar incorporates a rich variety of historical material and visual evidence from both primary and secondary sources, collected from multilateral channels in Europe and Senegal. It includes an analysis of a variety of planning and
Table of Contents1. Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African regional capital
2. Planting the flag and military planning in imperial Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions
3. Street naming, infectious diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights
4. The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented traditions and ideologies in colonial Dakar
5. Afterword: Dakar's 'old city' and beyond
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