Chronicles the design of Dakar as a regional capital, and suggests a connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa. -- .
This book examines the street naming processes that have shaped and reshaped the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban sub-Saharan African cities, with comparative examples of additional cities beyond the subcontinent.
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It... Læs mere
This book examines the street naming processes that have shaped and reshaped the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban sub-Saharan African cities, with comparative examples of additional cities beyond the subcontinent.
Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It... Læs mere
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.