A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
Dec 7, 2023 · This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’ambo (a KiSwahili place-name meaning ‘the Other Side’).
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
Dec 8, 2010 · At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.
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- Author: William Cunningham Bissell
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
In urban spaces like Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. Rather than remaking space, these designs often unraveled. Plans were formulated and then fell …
deliver progress and development. In urban Zanzibar, the British vowed to import scientific techniques and practices, ranging from sanitation to urban planning, to create a perfect city. However, William Cunningham Bissell shows how these plans had to be remade over and over again. He offers a different view of colonialism, urban space, and
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
We document the diverse range of local actors who have chosen to retain or revise colonial planning legacies, initiate new city-wide master planning, or solicit, shape and assume...
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023
Dec 7, 2023 · In this paper I argue that cities in the global South constitute a distinctive ‘type’ of human settlement. I begin by critiquing Brenner and Schmid’s concept of planetary urbanization which erases …
Zanzibar: A Study in Tropical Town Planning | H V. Lanchester
WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, H.V. LANCHESTER, on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the uncommon 1923 1st edition of this fascinating study in tropical town planning, setting its sites on Zanzibar, the main island in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar.
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–
This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’ambo (a KiSwahili place-name meaning ‘the Other Side’).
The afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the garden city of ...
In this chapter, we detail the plan and its process of implementation, ending by highlighting several of the ways in which it lingers over contemporary planning in Zanzibar, especially planning associated with the ongoing Sustainable Management …
A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023 ...
This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’ambo (a KiSwahili place-name meaning ‘the Other Side’).