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Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through Architecture and Town Planning in South Africa


Citation Demissie, Fassil. 2005. "Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through Architecture and Town Planning in South Africa." ArchiAfrika Conference Proceedings: Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 27-29), 173-188.
Author/Editor Fassil Demissie
Book Title ArchiAfrika Conference Proceedings: Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence
Publication Date 2005
Copyright ArchiAfrika
Language English
Document Type Conference proceedings
Countries South Africa
Building Types residential
Keywords architectural criticism, housing, urban planning
File Type and Size application/pdf/133.66 KB
Description This is the third of the four papers included in the third session (Modern Housing and the Instant Welfare State) of the ArchiAfrika 2005 Conference, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between July 27 and 29. [Note: This paper was submitted but not presented in the conference]

Individual papers from the conference can be browsed here, with links (where available) to related materials in the ArchNet Digital Library. The conference proceedings are also available as a single PDF file on the ArchiAfrika website at archiafrika.org.

Fassil Demissie is an associate professor of Public Policy Studies at DePaul University in the United States.

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D. M. Calderwood
Ernst May
Le Corbusier
National Building and Research Institute (NBRI or N.B.R.I.) of South Africa
National Housing and Planning Corporation (NHPC or N.H.P.C.) of South Africa
Norman Hanson
Rex Distin Martienssen
W. Gordon McIntosh

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