Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar / William Cunningham Bissell.
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Bloomington :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.