Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal

by Eric Ross and Liora Bigon

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030295281
• ISBN13: 9783030295288
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 210 Pages