Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
Rationale for French Colonial Urbanism Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

8. French Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Ambe J. Njoh

Published in: French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Although Algeria is considered France’s first colony in Africa, France had been present in Africa in one capacity or another since 1659. This is when French traders set up a permanent trading post in Saint Louis in present-day Senegal. This marked the beginning of France’s effective control of what later came to be known as French sub-Saharan Africa. However, it is worth noting that the official onset of European colonialism did not begin in Africa until 1884/1885, following the conclusion of the Berlin Conference. This chapter discusses how French colonial authorities employed urban planning to facilitate attainment of important goals of the colonial project in this region. These goals were of the economic, political, socio-cultural and psychological variety.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe




 

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter French Urbanism in North Africa
next chapter Continuity and Change in French International Urbanism
Literature
Betts, R. F. (1971). The establishment of the Medina in Dakar, Senegal, 1914. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 41(2), 143–152.CrossRef
Bigon, L. (2009a). A history of urban planning in two West African colonial capitals. Lewiston: Mellen Press.
Bigon, L. (2009b). Urban planning, colonial doctrines and street naming in French Dakar and British Lago, c. 1850–1930. Urban History, 26(03), 426–448.CrossRef
Bigon, L. (2012). Garden city in the tropics? French Dakar in comparative perspective. Journal of Historical Geography, 38(1), 35–44.CrossRef
Coquery-Vidrovich, C., & Goerg, O. (1996). La ville européenne outre-mers, un modèle conquérant? XV e – XX e siècles. Paris/Montreal: l’Hartmattan.
De Graft-Johnson, J. C. (1986). African glory: The story of vanished Negro civilizations. Baltimore: Black Classic Press (First published, 1954).
Faure, C. (1914). Histoire de la Presqu’île du Cap Vert et des origines de Dakar. (avec une reproduction du plan directeur de Dakar de 1862 et un plan de la ville actuelle). Paris: Larose.
Foucault, M. (1982). Beyond structuralism and hermeneutics. Brighton: Harvester Press.
Home, R. (2013). Of planting and planning: The making of British colonial cities (2nd ed.). London/New York: Routledge.
Mamdani, M. (1996). Citizen and subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Martin, P. M. (1995). Leisure and society in colonial Brazzaville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mazrui, A. A. (1969). European exploration and Africa’s self-discovery. The Journal of African Affairs, 7(4), 661–666.
Njoh, A. J. (1995). Building and urban land use controls in developing countries: A critical appraisal of the Kumba (Cameroon) zoning ordinance. Third World Planning Review, 17(3), 337–356.CrossRef
Njoh, A. J. (2003). Planning in contemporary Africa: The state, town planning and society in Cameroon. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Njoh, A. J. (2004). The experience and legacy of French colonial urban planning in sub-Saharan Africa. Planning Perspectives, 19(4), 435–454.
Njoh, A. J. (2007). Planning power: Town planning and social control in colonial Africa. London/New York: University College London (UCL) Press.
Njoh, A. J. (2008). Colonial philosophies, urban space, and racial segregation in British and French colonial Africa. Journal of Black Studies, 38(4), 579–599.CrossRef
Njoh, A. J. (2009). Urban planning as a tool of power and social control in colonial Africa. Journal of Urban Planning & Development, 24(3), 301–331.
Njoh, A. J. (2012). Impact of transportation infrastructure on development in East Africa and the Indian Ocean region. J Urban Plan Dev, 138(1), 1–9.
Njoh, A. J. (2013). Equity, fairness and justice implications of land tenure formalization in Cameroon. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(2), 750–768.CrossRef
Sinou, A. (1995). Le comptoir de Ouidah: Une ville Africaines singulière. Paris: Karthala.
Venard, J.-L. (1986). 25 ans de Intervention française dans le secteur urbain en Afrique noire francophone. Paris: Economica.
Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a way of life. American Journal of Sociology, 44(1), 1–24.CrossRef
Woodson, C. G. (2000). A historical reader. New York: Garland Publishers.
Wright, G. (1991). The politics of design in French colonial urbanism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Metadata
Title
French Urbanism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author
Ambe J. Njoh
Copyright Year
2016
Book
French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25296-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25298-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25298-8_8