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Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories

Hardcover

Series: Design and the Built Environment

General ArchitectureUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0754675122
ISBN13: 9780754675129
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 19 2012
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment purposely suited to the administrative apparatus of empire: architecture and urbanism sought to project the authority of the European powers while simultaneously stabilizing the fragile European identity at the colonial frontier. This book seeks to uncover the multiple ways in which colonial architectural and urban design practices reconstituted colonial cities in Africa.

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