Urban Planning In Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial And Post-Colonial Planning Cultures - 9780415632294

This book provides a research based and critical view of urban planning cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial and post-colonial periods and identifies these influences on planning practices. It looks at planning as being strongly rooted in a particular culture based on the different planning systems, institutional arrangements, prevailing urban paradigms, legal traditions, political practices, and other cultural traits that all come into play.

• | Author: Carlos Nunes Silva
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 14, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 306 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415632293
• | ISBN-13: 9780415632294