Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban AfricaSyracuse University Press, 1 feb 2003 - 224 páginas Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settings—a revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different "verandahs of power," or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human experiences of that power. |
Índice
Enframing and Reframing African Cities | 1 |
The Interstitiality of Colonial Lives | 18 |
Colonial Nairobi | 33 |
Colonial Lusaka | 55 |
Colonial Zanzibar | 76 |
Revolutionary Zanzibar | 106 |
Lilongwe | 135 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Bibliography | 173 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abeid Amani Karume African cities African urban Afro-Shirazi Party Ajit Singh Ajit's architecture Asian Banda regime British colonial building built Bwana Juma central chapter Chinsapo city's civic center colonial city colonial regime colonial rule colonial urban colonialism's colonized middle construction containerization Coryndon created cultural desturi domination East Africa enframing tactics Eric Dutton European flats Frederick Lugard geographical Hansen Hastings Kamuzu Banda Holmwood House of Wonders imani Indian Karume's Kenya Kikwajuni land landscape legacy Lilongwe Lilongwe's lived Lugard Lusaka Malawi Malawian ment Michenzani mitaa Mwembetanga Nairobi Native Locations neighborhood Ng'ambo Northern Rhodesia Oldham Oldham papers order without framework percent plots political population postcolonial Protectorate Pumwani racial reconstruction reframed revolutionary Schlyter segmented plan settlement settler Singh Papers social space squatter Stone Town strategies Swahili Tanzania tion Univ urban majority urban planning uwezo verandahs verandahs of power Zambia Zanzibar city Zomba
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