ABSTRACT In Western (Eurocentric) research traditions of urban and planning histories, sub-
Saharan Africa is generally denied an urban past, an urban settlement design culture, and …

Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal Page 1 Grid Planning in the Urban
Design Practices of Senegal Liora Bigon · Eric Ross Page 2 Grid Planning in the Urban …

This chapter presents the indigenous Senegalese grid design tradition as it developed
throughout the pre-colonial and colonial eras. The grid plan is a ubiquitous urban design …

Based on the study of the holy city of Touba in Senegal, this chapter demonstrates how the
autonomous management of urbanisation by a religious institution can produce a city which …

Although Muslims have inhabited Senegal since the 5th/11th century, and centersof Islamicinstructionandculturebegantodevelo…
/17thcentury, there is no textual or archeological evidence indicating that Muslim shrines …

This chapter examines the history of the grid-plan in the urban planning traditions of
Senegal. The authors, an urban historian and an urban geographer, have approached the …

Abstract In Western (Eurocentric) research traditions of urban and planning histories, sub-
Saharan Africa is generally denied an urban past, an urban settlement-design culture, and …

This chapter explores the symbolic and political status of the towns and neighborhoods
established and managed by Senegal's contemporary Sufi orders (the Muridiyya, Tijaniyya …

The aim of this chapter is to trace the endogenous development of grid-planning as a spatial
practice in Senegal. The common assumptions that the orthogonal planning of settlements …

In this chapter, a variety of formalistic correspondences between indigenous grid-pattern
settlements and their colonial and post-colonial counterparts are analyzed in five important …