Urban design, chaos, and colonial po...
Bissell, William Cunningham, (1962-)

 

  • Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 307.7609678/1
    Title/Author: Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar/ William Cunningham Bissell.
    Author: Bissell, William Cunningham,
    Published: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, c2011.
    Description: 1 online resource (xii, 378 p.) : : ill.
    Subject: Sociology, Urban - History. - Tanzania
    Subject: City planning - History. - Tanzania
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    Subject: Zanzibar - History.
    ISBN: 9780253004963 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0253004969 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780253222558 (pbk.)
    ISBN: 9780253355430 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0253355435 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 0253222559 (pbk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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 bydesign: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.
    Online resource: Full text available:
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