Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal by Liora BigonEnglish | PDF | 2020 | 229 Pages | ISBN : 3030295257 | 18.15 MB
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.