Main entry:

Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962-

Title & Author:

Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell.

Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.

Description:

xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.

Summary:

Across Africa and elsewhere, colonialism promised to 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, Bissell shows how these plans had to be remade over and over again.

ISBN:

9780253222558 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253355430 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253355435 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253222559 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Tanzania Zanzibar History.
Sociology, Urban Tanzania Zanzibar History.
Sociologie urbaine Tanzanie Zanzibar Histoire.
British colonies.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Kolonialstadt
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Zanzibar History.
Great Britain Colonies Africa History.
Zanzibar Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne Colonies Afrique Histoire.
Africa.
Tanzania Zanzibar.
Sansibar

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270952
Call No.: BIB 203884
Status: Available