By Ambe Njoh
With a multidisciplinary standpoint, Planning Power examines British and French colonial city and nation making plans efforts in Africa. Drawing out similarities within the colonial administrative and financial thoughts of the 2 powers, instead of emphasizing the diversities, the publication deals an strangely nuanced view of African making plans structures in a time of upheaval and political swap. In displaying how the colonial professionals sought to realize political and social keep watch over in Africa, it may be visible how their will to exert political strength motivated each sector of making plans perform in this era.
This specified comparative research of British and French colonial city making plans – masking the complete sub-Saharan African quarter – takes theories from a variety of disciplines, together with political technology, background, city and local making plans, economics and geography to color a entire photograph of the topic. Written via a prolific researcher and author within the political-economy of city and nearby making plans in Africa, Planning Power is efficacious analyzing for college kids and lecturers in a variety of disciplines.
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