Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar

Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell.

Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
City planning > Tanzania > Zanzibar > History.
Sociology, Urban > Tanzania > Zanzibar > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
British colonies
City planning
Sociology, Urban
Zanzibar > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > History.
Africa
Tanzania > Zanzibar
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: landscapes of power and planning
  • Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City
  • Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power
  • Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space
  • Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city
  • Development and the dilemmas of expertise
  • Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning
  • Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning
  • Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.

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