Of Planting and Planning
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The Making of British Colonial Cities
Robert Home
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The colonies of the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggist cities in the world; colonial policy and planning have had a profound impact in the form and functioning of these cities. Robert Home provides a critical assessment of the impact of British colonialism on world urban Developmenmt:
- the lagacy of Shaftesbury's Grand Modell in the New World and elsewhere
- the origins of racial segregation, from Raffles' Singapore to apartheid South Africa
- the building and renewal of port cities across the continents
- the new house forms devised from the verandah bungalow to the barrack block
- the control of city space by doctors and engineers
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PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION: ‘THE CHIEF EXPORTER OF MUNICIPALITIES’ 1
1. THE ‘GRAND MODELL’ OF COLONIAL SETTLEMENT 9
2. ‘PLANTING IS MY TRADE’: THE SHAPERS OF COLONIAL URBAN 41
LANDSCAPES
3. PORT CITIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: A ‘GLOBAL 71
THALASSOCRACY’
4. THE ‘WAREHOUSING’ OF THE LABOURING CLASSES 98
5. ‘THE INCONVENIENCE FELT BY EUROPEANS’: RACIAL 138
SEGREGATION, ITS RISE AND FALL
6. ‘MIRACLE–WORKER TO THE PEOPLE’: THE IDEA OF TOWN 167
PLANNING (1910–1935)
7. ‘THIS NOVEL LEGISLATION’: INSTITUTIONALIZING TOWN 204
PLANNING (1900–1950)
8. ‘WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO YOU WANT?’ THE TRANSITION TO 231
INDEPENDENCE
CONCLUSIONS: THE LEGACY OF COLONIAL TOWN PLANNING 262
Bibliography 266
Glossary and Abbreviations 292
Index 294