{"product_id":"french-colonial-dakar-9780719099359","title":"French Colonial Dakar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: French colonial Dakar: the morphogenesis of an African regional capital \t\t\u003cbr\u003e2. Planting the flag and military planning in imperial Dakar: asymmetries, uncertainties, illusions\t\u003cbr\u003e3. Street naming, infectious diseases and planning in early colonial Dakar: segregationist insights\u003cbr\u003e4. The quest for architectural style for French West Africa: invented traditions and ideologies in colonial Dakar \t\t\u003cbr\u003e5. Afterword: Dakar's 'old city' and beyond\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884294877527,"sku":"9780719099359","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/french-colonial-dakar-9780719099359","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}