Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar
By: William Cunningham Bissell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780253222558; 9780253355430
Subjects: City planning; Colonies; History; Urban Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: landscapes of power and planning; title: Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City; title: Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power; title: Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space; title: Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city; title: Development and the dilemmas of expertise; title: Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning; title: Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning; title: Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.