| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
BissellWilliam Cunningham, 1962- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 378 p.)ill. : |
| Subject: |
Sociology, Urban - History - Tanzania - |
| Subject: |
City planning - History - Tanzania - |
| Subject: |
Great Britain - Colonies - Africa - |
| Subject: |
Zanzibar - History - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253004963/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780253004963electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253004969electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253222558pbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253355430hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253355435hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253222559pbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 bydesign: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present |