Sökning: "COLONIAL PLANNING"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden COLONIAL PLANNING.
1. The evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004
Sammanfattning : Through a descriptive and exploratory approach, and by review and deduction of archival and documentary resources, supplemented by empirical evidence from case studies, this thesis traces, analyses and describes the historic trajectory of planning events in Kampala City, Uganda, since the inception of modern town planning in 1903, and runs through the various planning episodes of 1912, 1919, 1930, 1951, 1972 and 1994. The planning ideas at interplay in each planning period and their expression in planning schemes vis-à-vis spatial outcomes form the major focus. LÄS MER
2. In The Making : Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After
Sammanfattning : The principal aim of my PhD research is to think through practices involved in the making of In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009), that constituted as well as traversed the exhibitions and went beyond. LÄS MER
3. Becoming Jinja : The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town
Sammanfattning : The years immediately preceding and following W.W.II marked a turning point in British colonial policy in Africa. In this doctoral thesis, which focuses on colonial and post-colonial Uganda, this turning point is approached in terms of a shift in would-be hegemonic socio-spatial diagrams of power. LÄS MER
4. New urban horizons in Africa : A critical analysis of changing land uses in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Sammanfattning : African cities increasingly aspire global recognition and this has prompted a rapid transformation of the built environment in many urban locales. This thesis provides empirical and conceptual insights into this recent trend through a critical analysis of contemporary land use changes in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. LÄS MER
5. A matter of difference?: Family planning and gendered discourses on sexuality and reproductive decision-making among black and white Zimbabweans
Sammanfattning : Based on field and archival research, the thesis explores reproductive decision-making in contemporary Zimbabwe, as well as the historical background of current discourses on sexuality and reproduction. Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) was created and structured by a European Imperial diaspora, based on racialised patriarchal structures of control. LÄS MER