25 research outputs found
The Segregated City in British and French Colonial Africa
A number of different techniques and rationales were used by the French and British colonial authorities to racially segregate cities in Africa - from the use of planning by-laws requiring European building materials, to the requiring of fluency in European languages in specific areas of towns. Here, the ways in which town planning policies were used to segregate cities in Madagascar, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are considered
Implications of Africa’s Transportation Systems for Development in the Era of Globalization
Colonial road-building, Colonial railways, Transportation planning, Economic development, Africa,
The Development Theory of Transportation Infrastructure Examined in the Context of Central and West Africa
Airports, Central Africa, Developing countries, Inland transportation, Navigable waterways, Roads, Rural transportation, Railways, Sub-Saharan Africa, Transportation infrastructure, West Africa,