Forms of Dominance

On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise

Nezar AlSayyad

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040149027
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• New Series Introduction to RLE: Ethnoscapes
• Forms of Dominance
• Ethnoscapes
• Original Title Page
• Dedication
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• New Reissue Preface
• Preface
• 1 Urbanism and the Dominance Equation: Reflections on Colonialism and National Identity
• 2 The Islamic City as a Colonial Enterprise
• 3 From Suprabarangay to Colonial Capital: Reflections on the Hispanic Foundation of Manila
• 4 City as Durbar: Theater and Power in Imperial Dehli
• 5 Pondicherry: A French Enclave in India
• 6 Before the Instant City: San Francisco’s Colonial Origins Reconsidered
• 7 Colonialism, Modernity: The French in Morocco
• 8 Le Corbusier and Algiers: The Plan Obus as Colonial Urbanism
• 9 Building Power: Italian Architecture and Urbanism in Libya and Ethiopia
• 10 Creating the Traditional City: A French Project
• 11 Cities of the Stalinist Empire
• 12 Continued Colonization in the New World: Model Villages in the Guatemalan Highlands
• 13 Designing National Identity: Post-Colonial Capitols as Intercultural Dilemmas
• 14 Rethinking Colonialism: An Epilogue
• Note on Contributors