Garden Cities and Colonial Planning - Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine

Informationen zum Autor Liora Bigon is a Research Fellow in European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Yossi Katz is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel Klappentext 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 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...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Liora Bigon, Liora Katz Bigon
• Collaboration: Liora Bigon (Editeur), Katz Yossi (Editeur)
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 03.01.2017
• EAN: 9781526106780
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0678-0
• Pages: 216
• Thème: Studies in Imperialism
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Aménagement du territoire; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Colonialism & imperialism, Urban & municipal planning, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, Palestine, African History, Urban and municipal planning and policy