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This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal. 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. By thus, it transcends the classic precolonial-colonial-postcolonial metahistorical divides. This properly illustrated book consists of five chapters, including an introductory chapter (historiography, theory and context) and a concluding chapter. The chapters' text has both a chronological and thematic rationale, aimed at enhancing Islamic Studies by situating sub-Saharan Africa's urbanism within mainstream research on the Muslim World; and at contributing directly to the wider project of de-Eurocentrizing urban planning history by developing a more inclusive, truly global, urban history.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Regional & area planning Urban & municipal planning

• Full title: Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal
• Author: Liora Bigon, Eric Ross
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 210
• EAN: 9783030295257
• ID: 24519618
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Weight: 609 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2020

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