04528nam 2200805 a 450 991049613740332120230828225118.0978058511456905851145602027/heb33051(CKB)111004366716352(MH)007384101-3(SSID)ssj0000265781(PQKBManifestationID)12063163(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265781(PQKBWorkID)10300226(PQKB)11519964(dli)HEB33051(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000977(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000977(EXLCZ)9911100436671635219961112d1997 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrUrban forms and colonial confrontations Algiers under French rule /Zeynep ÇelikBerkeley, Calif. University of California Press19971 online resource (xiv, 236 p. )ill., maps, plans ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780520204577 0520204573 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index.The casbah and the marine quarter --- An outline of urban structure --- The indigenous house --- Housing the Algerians : policies --- Housing the Algerians : grands ensembles."During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and challenged. In this pathbreaking book, Zeynep Celik reads the city of Algiers as the site of social, political, and cultural conflicts during the 132 years of French occupation and argues that architecture and urban forms are integral components of the colonial discourse. -- Algiers' city planning, based on what Celik calls "the trial-and-error" model of French colonial urbanism, included the fragmentation of the casbah, ambitious Beaux Arts schemes to create European forms of housing, master plans inspired by high modernism, and comprehensive regional plans. Eventually a dramatic housing shortage led all planning efforts to be centered on the construction of large-scale residential enclaves. French architects based their designs for domestic space on the concept of the "traditional house," itself an interdisciplinary colonial concept intertwined with the discourse on Algerian women. Housing also offered the French colonizers a powerful presence in a country where periodic resistance to the occupation eventually culminated in a seven-year war of liberation and an end to French rule."http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/96037606.html.ACLS Fellows' Publications.Urban forms and colonial confrontationsArchitecture and societyAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture, FrenchAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture, ColonialAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture, DomesticAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture and societyAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture, FrenchAlgiersAlgeriaArchitecture, ColonialAlgeriaAlgiersArchitecture, DomesticAlgeriaAlgiersArchitectureHILCCArt, Architecture & Applied ArtsHILCCAlgiers (Algeria)Buildings, structures, etcArchitecture and societyArchitecture, FrenchArchitecture, ColonialArchitecture, DomesticArchitecture and societyArchitecture, FrenchArchitecture, ColonialArchitecture, DomesticArchitectureArt, Architecture & Applied Arts720/.965/3Çelik Zeynep645242ðCelik ZeynepDLCDLCMH-FABOOK9910496137403321Urban forms and colonial confrontations2862651UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress