Grid planning in the urban design practices of Senegal. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Grid planning in the urban design practices of Senegal. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Grid planning in the urban design practices of Senegal
- Further Information:
- Note: Liora Bigon, Eric Ross.
- Other Names:
- Bigon, Liora, 1974-
Ross, Eric - Contents:
- Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Historiographic Traditions, Grid-Plan Cultures and Africa -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Islamic Studies, World History and Africa -- 1.3 African Urban History and Global Urban Studies -- 1.4 Africa, the South and the Worldling of Grid Plan Legacies -- 1.5 Book Structure, Sources and Methodology -- 1.5.1 Book Structure -- 1.5.2 Sources of Data -- 1.5.3 Cartographic Method -- References Chapter 2: The Vernacular Grid in Senegal: The Popularization of an Elite Spatial Practice -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Royal Capitals: Exclusionary Grids of Power -- 2.3 Clerical Towns: Autonomous Exclaves of Counter-Power -- 2.4 The Grid in Classical Islamic Urban Design -- 2.5 Sufi Settlements: Grids Aligned Along the "Straight Path" -- 2.5.1 Qadiri Settlements -- 2.5.2 Tijani Settlements -- 2.5.3 Murid Settlements -- 2.5.4 Layenne Settlements -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Configuring the Colonial Grid in Senegal: Comptoirs, escales, villages de liberté, communes and Capitals 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Mercantilist comptoirs and River escales: Hesitative Grids -- 3.3 Nineteenth-Century comptoirs and River escales: Bourgeoning Grids -- 3.4 Villages de liberté: Imprisoning Grids -- 3.5 Rail escales, communes and Capitals: Towards Consolidated Gridded Networks -- 3.6 Gridded Forms and Functions in (French) Colonial Contexts -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References --Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Historiographic Traditions, Grid-Plan Cultures and Africa -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Islamic Studies, World History and Africa -- 1.3 African Urban History and Global Urban Studies -- 1.4 Africa, the South and the Worldling of Grid Plan Legacies -- 1.5 Book Structure, Sources and Methodology -- 1.5.1 Book Structure -- 1.5.2 Sources of Data -- 1.5.3 Cartographic Method -- References Chapter 2: The Vernacular Grid in Senegal: The Popularization of an Elite Spatial Practice -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Royal Capitals: Exclusionary Grids of Power -- 2.3 Clerical Towns: Autonomous Exclaves of Counter-Power -- 2.4 The Grid in Classical Islamic Urban Design -- 2.5 Sufi Settlements: Grids Aligned Along the "Straight Path" -- 2.5.1 Qadiri Settlements -- 2.5.2 Tijani Settlements -- 2.5.3 Murid Settlements -- 2.5.4 Layenne Settlements -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Configuring the Colonial Grid in Senegal: Comptoirs, escales, villages de liberté, communes and Capitals 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Mercantilist comptoirs and River escales: Hesitative Grids -- 3.3 Nineteenth-Century comptoirs and River escales: Bourgeoning Grids -- 3.4 Villages de liberté: Imprisoning Grids -- 3.5 Rail escales, communes and Capitals: Towards Consolidated Gridded Networks -- 3.6 Gridded Forms and Functions in (French) Colonial Contexts -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Entangled Grids: Vernacular and (Post- )Colonial Planning Interactions in Contemporary Senegalese Cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Dakar -- 4.3 Touba 4.4 Hadji Malick (Tivaouane) and Leona (Kaolack): Carving a Sufi pénc out of the Colonial Grid -- 4.5 Keur Goumak (Diourbel) and Médina Baye (Kaolack): Accommodating the Sufi pénc in the Colonial Grid -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Archival Sources -- Afterword: Senegal' Cities Entangled in the Grid -- Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Subjects:
- 307.1/21609663
Grid plans (City planning) -- Senegal
Grid plans (City planning)
Senegal
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030295264
3030295265 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783030295257
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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