| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 378 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present |
| Summary |
Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to deliver progress and development. In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often unraveled. Plans were formulated and then fell by the wayside, over and over again. By focusing on these flawed efforts to impose colonial order, William Cunningham Bissell offers a different view of colonialis |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed February 20, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
City planning -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History
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Sociology, Urban -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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British colonies
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City planning
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Sociology, Urban
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| SUBJECT |
Zanzibar -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149649
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
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Africa
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Tanzania -- Zanzibar
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253004963 |
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0253004969 |
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1283101718 |
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9781283101714 |
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9786613101716 |
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6613101710 |
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