French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

Author: Njoh, Ambe J.

Edition: 1st ed. 2016

Format: Kindle eBook

Number Of Pages: 222

Release Date: 10-12-2015

Languages: English

Binding: Kindle Edition

Details:

This book will seek to close the gaps on the role of France in exporting Eurocentric spatial and environmental design principles and practice.  It does so by analyzing the major spatial and physical development projects that French colonial authorities implemented in France’s colonial empire and elsewhere from the 15^th to the 20^th century. French urban planning ideology, principles and practice were not exported exclusively to territories under French colonial suzerainty. Accordingly, the book focuses on major physical and spatial planning schemes inspired by French planning thought in territories without a history of French colonialism.