A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side

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Titre
A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side
Créateur
Myers, Garth Andrew
Sujet
Urbanisme -- Zanzibar
Résumé
Ng'ambo is the historic Other Side of Zanzibar city. The last 50 years have brought two attempts to demolish Ng'ambo and replace it with spaces designed to express the dominance of the state. Differences at first appear to be large between colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar. Yet these reconstructions shared similar objectives, failures and consequences. This paper highlights commonalities between the two projects and ties them to three themes from the literature of colonial cities in Africa concerning colonial urban planning and its post-colonial legacy. These themes include: the bureaucratisation and centralisation of power; the manipulation of space as a means of fostering hegemony; and the alienation of residents from the planning process.
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Urban Studies
volume
32
numéro
8
pages
1345-1359
Date
1995
Langue
eng
doi
10.1080/00420989550012500
issn
0042-0980
Titre abrégé
A Stupendous Hammer

Myers, Garth Andrew, “A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstructions of Zanzibar's Other Side”, 1995, bibliographie, consulté le 16 janvier 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/26272

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