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  • French colonial Dakar

    The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

    by Liora Bigon ...
    Series Book 138 - Studies in Imperialism
    This volume explores the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban politics, policies and practices, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal

    by Liora Bigon, Eric Ross ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal. It does so by analyzing how the precolonial grid-plan design tradition of this country has become entangled with French colonial urban grid-planning, and with present-day, hybrid, planning cultures. By thus, it transcends the classic precolonial ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel

    Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices

    by Liora Bigon, Michel Ben Arrous ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent issues, such as the importance of extra-formal processes, naming reception and unofficial toponymies, naming decolonisation, place attachment, place-making and the materiality of ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Splintering Towers of Babel

    Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

    by Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics.The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Place Names in Africa

    Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories

    Edited by Liora Bigon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place-naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analysing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Garden cities and colonial planning

    Transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine

    Edited by Liora Bigon, Yossi Katz ...
    Series Book 110 - Studies in Imperialism
    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 ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology

    Edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Liora Bigon ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume. The contributions showcased in this book examine the spatial histories of the grid from multiple perspectives in a variety of urban contexts. They explore the grid as both an indigenous urban form and a colonial imposition, a symbol of Confucian ideals and a spatial ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Decolonizing Heritage

    Time to Repair in Senegal

    by Ferdinand De Jong ...
    Series Book 65 - The International African Library
    Senegal features prominently on the UNESCO World Heritage List. As many of its cultural heritage sites are remnants of the French empire, how does an independent nation care for the heritage of colonialism? How does it reinterpret slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire to imagine its own national future? This book examines Senegal's decolonization of its cultural heritage. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Encyclopedia of African Literature

    Edited by Simon Gikandi ...
    The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering criticism and theory, African literature's development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers and their texts. While the greatest proportion of literary work in ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Europe after Empire

    Decolonization, Society, and Culture

    by Elizabeth Buettner ...
    Series Book 51 - New Approaches to European History
    Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • In Senghor's Shadow

    Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995

    by Elizabeth Harney, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Senghor’s Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal’s first president, and in the decades since he stepped down in 1980. As a major philosopher and poet of Negritude, Senghor envisioned an active and revolutionary role for modern artists, and he created a well ... Read more

    $21.59 USD