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Book SynopsisA 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
Trade ReviewThe volume is indeed a welcomed addition to the literature on colonial urbanism. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Garden cities and colonial planning: transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine – Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz
PART I: Garden cities and colonial Africa
1. Symbolic usage in the 'garden city' concept during the French Protectorate in Morocco: from the Howardian model to garden housing-estates – Charlotte Jelidi
2. From metropolitan to colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin – Liora Bigon
3. The 'plateau' in West-African, French-speaking colonial towns: between garden and city – Alain Sinou
4. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow – Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali Muhajir
PART II: Garden cities in colonial and mandate Palestine (Eretz Israel)
5. 'May be solved by the construction of garden cities' (Theodor Herzl): German-Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel – Ines Sonder
6. Urban development and the 'garden city': examples from late Ottoman era Palestine (and notes leading up to the late British Mandate) – Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon
7. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: the case of Tel Aviv – Miki Zaidman and Ruth Kark
Afterword: Multilateral channels, garden cities and colonial planning – Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz
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