Motorway development and the conservation of traditional third world cities
Abstract Many Third World countries with pre-colonial backgrounds have traditional residential communities at the core of cities which differ from rings of modern development towards the outskirts. Some of the cities also have unique traditional social set-ups and suburbs of colonial and post-Independence development. The ideology of contemporary planning, founded on rational, impersonal layouts of districts and borrowed largely from the West, demonstrates little sensitivity to such traditional city communities, many of which are in danger of complete destruction. This article examines problems faced by such cities and the global prospects for conservation.
The context of policy: Cities and development
This article criticizes a number of assumptions inherent in urban research programmes, including the Western, ‘urban’ and economic biases in such research. The article argues for a multiiisciplinary and holistic approach to settlements issues in developing countries and, inter alia, suggests that policy studies take account of the difference between rhetoric and practice, the dangers of using models, and the meaning of development terminology.
Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa
List of maps, figures, and tables Preface Introduction: exploding cities in poverty-stricken countries 1. Empires and trade 2. Urbanization and economic development 3. Rural-urban migration 4. Townsman and absentee villager 5. Social relationships in the urban setting 6. Three types of change 7. The family: continuity and change 8. Changes in the position of women 9. Stratification and social mobility Conclusion: the incorporation of the West African peasantry Notes Bibliography Name index Subject index.