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- Offers a unique focus on urban grid-plans in Africa and the global South
- Provides an in-depth study supported by rich visual images
- First book framing Senegalese grid-plans and historiographic traditions
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal. It does so by analyzing how the precolonial grid-plan design tradition of this country has become entangled with French colonial urban grid-planning, and with present-day, hybrid, planning cultures. By thus, it transcends the classic precolonial-colonial-postcolonial metahistorical divides.
This properly illustrated book consists of five chapters, including an introductory chapter (historiography, theory and context) and a concluding chapter. The chapters’ text has both a chronological and thematic rationale, aimed at enhancing Islamic Studies by situating sub-Saharan Africa’s urbanism within mainstream research on the Muslim World; and at contributing directly to the wider project of de-Eurocentrizing urban planning history by developing a more inclusive, truly global, urban history.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
Liora Bigon
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School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Eric Ross
About the authors
Liora Bigon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at HIT‒ Holon Institute of Technology, where she teaches (post-)colonial, urban and Islamic histories. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in architectural history and has written extensively on sub-Saharan Africa urban cultures, including: Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine (Manchester University Press, 2014, edited with Yossi Katz); French Colonial Dakar: The Morphogenesis of an African Regional Capital (Manchester University Press, 2016); Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories (Springer, 2014, edited); and Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology (Springer, 2018, edited with Reuben Rose-Redwood).
Eric Ross is a Professor of Geography at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, where he has been teaching since 1998. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from McGill University. He is an urban and cultural geographer whose research focuses on Muslim Africa. Ross has conducted research on Sufism and urbanization in Senegal as well as on cultural heritage and development in Morocco. He is the author of Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba (University of Rochester Press, 2008); and first author of Assessing Tourism in Essaouira (Al Akhawayn University Press, 2002). In addition, Ross has published articles for academic journals such as Urban Studies and Planning Perspectives, has authored chapters in eleven edited volumes, and has written entries for specialized encyclopedias including the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal
Authors: Liora Bigon, Eric Ross
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29526-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29525-7Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29528-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29526-4Published: 01 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 210
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban History, Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology