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Informationen zum Autor Liora Bigon is a Research Fellow in European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelYossi Katz is Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel Klappentext This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations. The socio-political, geographical and cultural implications are analysed here through case studies from the global South, namely from French and British colonial territories in Africa as well as from Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. The focus on the extra-European planning history of Europe - particularly in Africa and Palestine in the context of the garden city - is unprecedented in research literature, which tends to concentrate on the global North. The book focuses on the transnational aspects of the garden city, taking into account frameworks and documentation that extend beyond national borders, and includes contributions from an international network of specialists including Alain Sinou, Garth Myers and Ruth Kark. The comparative views and geographical focus exhibited here challenge the conventional, Eurocentric approach to garden cities and show that the spread of garden city ideas into colonial territories was not uni-directional. This was an uncontrolled, diffusive process that crossed complex and multiple frontiers, and sometimes moved in quite unexpected directions. In considering this transnational aspect, and recognising the difference between metropolitan and colonial planning cultures, this volume will interest students and scholars of planning history and colonial history. Zusammenfassung A study of European planning ideas in the form of garden city concepts and practices in their broadest sense! and the ways these were transmitted! diffused and diverted in various colonial territories and situations -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Garden cities and colonial planning: transnationality and urban ideas in Africa and Palestine - Liora Bigon and Yossi KatzPART I: Garden cities and colonial Africa1. Symbolic usage in the 'garden city' concept during the French Protectorate in Morocco: from the Howardian model to garden housing-estates - Charlotte Jelidi2. From metropolitan to colonial planning: Dakar between garden city and cité-jardin - Liora Bigon3. The 'plateau' in West-African, French-speaking colonial towns: between garden and city - Alain Sinou4. The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the garden city of tomorrow - Garth Andrew Myers and Makame Ali MuhajirPART II: Garden cities in colonial and mandate Palestine (Eretz Israel)5. 'May be solved by the construction of garden cities' (Theodor Herzl): German-Jewish literary proposals on garden cities in Eretz Israel - Ines Sonder6. Urban development and the 'garden city': examples from late Ottoman era Palestine (and notes leading up to the late British Mandate) - Yossi Katz and Liora Bigon7. Garden cities and suburbs in Palestine: the case of Tel Aviv - Miki Zaidman and Ruth KarkAfterword: Multilateral channels, garden cities and colonial planning - Liora Bigon and Yossi KatzIndex...
