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