Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures

By Silva Carlos Nunes and Carlos Nunes Silva

Book Overview

This book provides a research based and critical view of urban planning cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial and post-colonial periods and identifies these influences on planning practices. It looks at planning as being strongly rooted in a particular culture based on the different planning systems, institutional arrangements, prevailing urban paradigms, legal traditions, political practices, and other cultural traits that all come into play.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415632293
• ISBN13: 9780415632294
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"