Verandahs of power : colonialism and space in urban Africa
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Verandahs of power : colonialism and space in urban Africa
（Space, place, and society series / series editor, John Rennie Short）
Syracuse University Press, 2003
1st ed
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-190) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hardcover ISBN 9780815629726
Description
Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settingsa revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different ""verandahs of power,"" or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human experiences of that power.
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: pbk ISBN 9780815629979
Description
Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities, tracing the legacies of colonialism in different and divergent postcolonial settings-a revolutionary left-wing socialist state (Zanzibar) and a reactionary right-wing dictatorship (Malawi). In addition to the examination of urban plans and the African urban majority's responses to them, the book traces the experience of the urban planning process through three different "verandahs of power," or levels of class depiction: the colonial power, the colonized middle, and the urban majority. Interspersed with personal stories, this book illuminates our understanding of the workings of power in African cities by addressing human experiences of that power.
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Enframing and Reframing African Cities
The Interstitiality of Colonial Lives
Colonial Nairobi
Colonial Lusaka
Colonial Zanzibar
Revolutionary Zanzibar
Lilongwe
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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