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Title The development syndrome: post-war housing and residential segregation in French Dakar (Senegal): building and contesting the SICAP housing schemes in the late colonial period (1951-1960)
Full text https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538905; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8538905; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2017.1411820; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538905/file/8550577
Date 2017
Author(s) Beeckmans, Luce
Abstract After WWII European welfare planning was transposed to the African colonies. With regard to housing this meant a true turning point in urban policy. Under a development slogan, colonial powers for the first time massively invested in the housing of African urban dwellers. This was especially the case in French Dakar, Senegal, where the Société Immobilière du Cap Vert (SICAP) was one of the most productive housing institutions in post-war sub-Saharan Africa. This article however argues that the development discourse mobilised by the colonial government not only formed the basis to modernize the city. It also served as an instrument to legitimise a new kind of residential segregation, a phenomenon I called the 'Developed Syndrome'. Yet Africans were no passive victims of development schemes. This article brings to the fore various forms of agency that were evoked by the ambiguous motivations underscoring the SICAP housing and resettlement schemes.
Subject(s) Arts and Architecture; residential segregation; colonial housing; development; SICAP; Dakar
Language eng
Type of publication journalArticle; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Source CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES; ISSN: 0008-3968
Rights I have transferred the copyright for this publication to the publisher; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
Repository Gent - University of Gent
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