Garden cities in colonial Africa: a note on historiography

Liora Bigon

Planning Perspectives, 2013, vol. 28, issue 3, 477-485

Abstract: While there is an abundance of published literature on the diffusion of planning modes and garden city notions in the western world, the corresponding literature on colonial (sub-Saharan) Africa is rather sparse. This brief paper, dealing with major historiographic trends in urban space and segregation in light of garden city literature proposes new directions for critical research on garden cities in colonial Africa. Both thematically and methodologically, the paper will highlight the importance of studying the influences of garden city ideas beyond the global North-West, and understanding the channels through which they were passed on to various colonial contexts in Africa, the circumstances of their application and the political interests they were meant to serve.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2013.800716

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