Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

New Towns in development across Africa are overwhelmingly designed according to
twentieth-century planning models ranging from functionalist Chinese grids to American …

Research on the urban grid plan in colonial contexts tends to analyse the grid as an
occidental top-down phenomenon that was inscribed on a spatial tabula rasa of indigenous …

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 …

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 …

Windhoek, capital city of South West Africa or modern Namibia, represents an extraordinary
showpiece for overlapping colonial planning regimes. For the first time, this book focuses on …

Building Ideology - A Spatial History of Livingstone Page 1 DISSERTATION / DOCTORAL
THESIS Titel der Dissertation /Title of the Doctoral Thesis „Building Ideology – A Spatial …

Abstract The New Towns (mixed use urban developments planned and built from scratch)
initiated across the African continent since 1990 are overwhelmingly designed and built …

This thesis explores the intersection between blackness and African video art. This is
achieved through a focus on five case studies produced by African artists in the period …

Since the economic shifts of the 1990s, New Towns have become an increasingly popular
approach to urban development across the African continent. While New Towns are not a …