Search for dissertations about: "colonial planning"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words colonial planning.

2. 1. The evolution of Town Planning Ideas, Plans and their Implementation in Kampala City 1903-2004

   Author : Fredrick Omolo-Okalebo; Inga Britt Werner; Robert Home; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; planning; planning ideas; implementation; colonial; postcolonial;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

4. 2. In The Making : Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After

   Author : Marion von Osten; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colonial planning; Anti-colonial resistance; Decoloniality; Parainstitutional practice; Art and politics;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

5. 3. Becoming Jinja : The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town

   Author : Andrew Byerley; Gunilla Andrae; Jo Beall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; space; place; diagrams of power; colonial planning; modernisation; model-modern; de-tribalisation; discipline; bio-politics; industrialisation; urban housing; urban agriculture; alcohol; Uganda.; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

6. 4. New urban horizons in Africa : A critical analysis of changing land uses in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana

   Author : Lena Fält; Ilda Lindell; Andrew Byerley; Jennifer Robinson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; African cities; urban redevelopment; urban informality; urban land use; urban planning; spatial governance; new cities; evictions; socio-spatial segregation; qualitative case studies; fieldwork; critical urban theory; governmentality; post-colonial urban theory; Accra; Ghana; Geography with Emphasis on Human Geography; geografi med kulturgeografisk inriktning;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

7. 5. A matter of difference?: Family planning and gendered discourses on sexuality and reproductive decision-making among black and white Zimbabweans

   Author : Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rhodesia; Zimbabwe; fertility; reproductive behaviour; reproductive decision-making; gender; population policy; racialised sexuality; HIV Aids; family planning; feminism; Africa; discourse; masculinity; patriarchy; contraception;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE