Abstract:

This book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavors that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. As part of a burgeoning field of the study of the extra-European planning history of Europe, this book is one of the pioneers in attesting to the connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa, together with an analysis of the variety of indigenous, bottom-up, spatial responses.