Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables x
Notes on contributors xi
Preface xx
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: an Overview 8
Chapter 3: The IFHTP Discourse on Urbanism in Colonial Africa between the Wars 41
Chapter 4: Colonial Urban Planning in Anglophone Africa 53
Chapter 5: Colonial Planning Concept and Postcolonial Realities. The Influence of British Planning Culture in Tanzania, South Africa and Ghana 67
Chapter 6: French Colonial Urbanism in Africa 95
Chapter 7: The Grid Plan in the History of Senegalese Urban Design 110
Chapter 8: Architecture and Town Planning in Italian East Africa during the years of the Empire (1936-1941) 129
Chapter 9: Colonial Cities at the Crossroads: Italy and Ethiopia 145
Chapter 10: The German Variation. A Sketch of Colonial Städtebau in Africa, 1884-1919 165
Chapter 11: Crossed Colonization. Housing Development in Urban Peripheries. The Hispanic-African Colonial Territories, 1912 – 1976 – 2013 180
Chapter 12: Kinshasa’s Syndrome-Planning in Historical Perspective: from Belgian Colonial Capital to self- constructed Megalopolis 201
Chapter 13: Influence of Croatian Urban Planners in Postcolonial Africa. Urban Development Plan of Conakry, Guinea, 1963 225
Chapter 14: Reflections on Some Aspects of Town-Building at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, During the 1800s of Relevance to Today 245
Chapter 15: Valuing Possibility: South-South Cooperation and Participatory Budgeting in Maputo, Mozambique 266
Chapter 16: The Developmentalist Origins and Evolution of Planning Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, c1940 to 2010 285
Index 301