Garden cities and colonial planning : transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine

By:

Bigon, Liora Ed

Contributor(s):

Katz, Yossi Ed

Series: Studies in Imperialism Ed. by John M. Mackenzie and Andrew S. ThompsonPublication details: Manchester Manchester University Press 2014Description: xiv,199pISBN:

9781526106780

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.1216 BIG

Contents:

CONTENTS List of figures vii List of contributors ix Series editor's introduction xi Preface and acknowledgements xiii Introduction: Garden cities and colonial planning: transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine Liora Bigon 1 PART I- Garden cities and colonial Africa 1.Symbolic usage of the 'garden city' concept during the French Protectorate in Morocco: from the Howardian model to garden housing estates Charlotte Jelidi 35 2. From metropolitan to colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cite-jardin Liora Bigon 50 3. The 'plateau' in West African, French-speaking colonial towns: between garden and city Alain Sinou 74 4. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali Muhajir 98 PART II- Garden cities in colonial and Mandatory Palestine (Eretz Israel) 5.'May be solved by the construction of garden cities': German-Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in cretz Israel Ines Sander 123 6.Urban development and the 'garden city': examples from late Ottoman-era Palestine and the late British Mandate Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon 144 7. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: the case of Tel Aviv Miki Zaidman and Ruth Kark 167 Afterword: multilateral channels, garden cities and colonial planning Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz 190 Index 195

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CONTENTS
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Series editor's introduction xi
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Garden cities and colonial planning: transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine
Liora Bigon 1
PART I- Garden cities and colonial Africa
1.Symbolic usage of the 'garden city' concept during the French Protectorate in Morocco: from the Howardian model to garden housing estates Charlotte Jelidi 35
2. From metropolitan to colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cite-jardin Liora Bigon 50
3. The 'plateau' in West African, French-speaking colonial towns: between garden and city Alain Sinou 74
4. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali Muhajir 98
PART II- Garden cities in colonial and Mandatory Palestine (Eretz Israel)
5.'May be solved by the construction of garden cities': German-Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in cretz Israel Ines Sander 123
6.Urban development and the 'garden city': examples from late Ottoman-era Palestine and the late British Mandate Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon 144
7. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: the case of Tel Aviv
Miki Zaidman and Ruth Kark 167
Afterword: multilateral channels, garden cities and colonial planning Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz 190
Index 195

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