VERANDAHS OF POWER by Garth Andrew Myers ( 9780815629726 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

VERANDAHS OF POWER
COLONIALISM AND SPACE IN URBAN AFRICA

By:

Garth Andrew Myers

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0815629729

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9780815629726

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Publisher:

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 February, 2003

Series:

Space, Place, and Society

Pages:

221

Description:

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanzibar, and Lilongwe, and the workings of power in the planning processes for each city. It covers colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these cities

Synopsis:

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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16 photographs, index

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Syracuse University Press

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