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This book deals with the planning and architectural cultures that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, the book reveals a variety of urban politics, policies and practices, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual levels. The study of the extra-European planning history of Europe has been a burgeoning field in scholarly literature. By exploring colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa, a relatively untreated reg

City planning --- Architecture --- History. --- Dakar (Senegal) --- Colonial influence. --- Urbanisme --- History --- Histoire --- Dakar (Sénégal) --- Colonial influence --- Influence coloniale --- Dakar (Sénégal) --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Government policy --- Management --- Design and construction --- داكار (Senegal) --- Горад Дакар (Senegal) --- Horad Dakar (Senegal) --- Дакар (Senegal) --- Ντακάρ (Senegal) --- Dakaro (Senegal) --- Dacár (Senegal) --- Ville de Dakar (Senegal) --- דקר (Senegal) --- Dakara (Senegal) --- Dakaras (Senegal) --- ダカール (Senegal) --- Dakāru (Senegal) --- Dakaa (Senegal) --- Ndakaaru (Senegal) --- דאקאר (Senegal) --- 達喀爾 (Senegal) --- Dakaer (Senegal) --- Geography / Colonialism & imperialism --- History / Historical geography. --- HISTORY / Historical Geography. --- African history --- Colonialism & imperialism --- Geography. --- Colonial urban planning and architecture. --- Dakar (Senegal). --- European history beyond Europe. --- French colonialism. --- Sub-Saharan Africa.