Planning power
Subtitle: town planning and social control in colonial Africa
By: Ambe J. Njoh.
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Africa.; City planning -- Africa -- History.; Regional planning -- Africa -- History.; Colonial cities -- Africa.; Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.; Social control -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Power and the built environment in colonial Africa; value: French colonial urban planning ideology & practice; value: British colonialism, economics and spatial structures; value: Town planning in British colonial West Africa; value: Planning in French West Africa; value: Planning power in French Equatorial Africa & Madagascar; value: Planning in the Cameroons and Togoland; value: Town planning in colonial British Southern Africa; value: Planning ideology and practice in British East Africa; value: Public health policies and spatial structures in colonial Africa; value: Trade, commerce and spatial structures in colonial Africa; value: The political economy of colonial urban planning in Africa.