Of planting and planning : the making of British colonial cities / / Robert Home

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463146703321
• Autore: Home Robert K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-97297-2; 0-203-38476-8; 1-135-94582-9
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Collana: Planning, history and environment series
• Disciplina: 307.1/2160941
• Soggetti: City planning - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Architecture, British - Developing countries; Vernacular architecture - Developing countries; Electronic books.; Great Britain Colonies Administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Glossary -- Year of independence and population of the main British colonies -- Introduction : the chief exporter of municipalities -- The "Grand modell" of colonial settlement -- "Planting is my trade" : the shapers of colonial urban landscapes -- Port cities of the British empire : "a global thalassocracy" -- The "warehousing" of the labouring classes -- "The inconvenience felt by Europeans" : racial segregation, its rise and fall -- "Miracle-worker to the people" : the idea of town planning, 1910-1935 -- "This novel legislation" : institutionalizing town planning, 1900-1950 -- "What kind of country do you want?" : the transition to independence -- Conclusions: the legacy of colonial town planning -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.' - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith.Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used ; the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decoloniza