Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through Architecture and Town Planning in South Africa

This is the third of the four papers included in the third session (Modern Housing and the Instant Welfare State) of the ArchiAfrika 2005 Conference, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between July 27 and 29. [Note: This paper was submitted but not presented in the conference]

Individual papers from the conference can be browsed here, with links (where available) to related materials in the ArchNet Digital Library. The conference proceedings are also available as a single PDF file on the ArchiAfrika website at archiafrika.org.

Fassil Demissie is an associate professor of Public Policy Studies at DePaul University in the United States.

Demissie, Fassil. 2005. "Controlling and 'Civilising Natives' through Architecture and Town Planning in South Africa." ArchiAfrika Conference Proceedings: Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 27-29), 173-188.

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