By Anthony D. King
The examine makes a speciality of the social and, extra specially, the cultural methods governing colonial city improvement and develops a idea and method to do that. the writer demonstrates how the actual and spatial preparations characterizing city improvement are distinctive items of a selected society, to be understood basically when it comes to its values, behaviour and associations and the distribution of social and political strength inside it. Nowhere is that this extra obvious than in 'colonial towns' of Asia and Africa the place the environmental assumptions of a dominant, industrializing Western strength have been brought to principally 'pre-industrial' societies. Anthony King attracts his fabric essentially from those components, and incorporates a case research of the advance of colonial Delhi from the early 19th century to 1947. but, because the writer explains, the issues of the way cultural social and political elements impression the character of environments and the way those in flip impact social tactics and behavior, are of worldwide significance.
This publication used to be first released in 1976.
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3 National (societal) This level of analysis focuses on the characteristics of urbanisation and urban development, resulting from the processes of colonialism, in the two societies concerned, the colonised and the metropolitan. In the colonised society, such patterns can be examined in terms of function or in terms of scale and locality. In either case, the distinctive pattern of urbanisation and urban development would be analysed in comparison to patterns in non-colonial societies. g. e. numerical size of ‘colonial’ population and distance from colonial capital) a Individual settlement area (planter, isolated official) b District town (‘colonial’ population including the district officer, judge, missionary, civil surgeon, engineer, district superintendent of police) c Provincial capital and cantonment (as in (b), but with larger civilian, military and private (commercial) population) d Major ports and colonial capital At this level, particular attention would be paid to inter-urban relationships, to the communication system linking the various urban centres and to the economic and political policies of colonialism determining the total pattern.
If a comparative framework is adopted, then one of the other units for comparison becomes a generalised ‘indigenous settlement area’ or ‘native town’. While acknowledging that each ‘colonial urban settlement’ was in some way a product of culture contact processes by which institutions of the metropolitan culture were modified by those of the host culture with which it came into contact, as well as the ‘situational’ circumstances in which this contact took place, one may none the less recognise certain basic cultural as well as structural characteristics which are common to the colonial urban settlement whether it be in Africa, Asia or elsewhere.
2 They all manifest certain comparable spatial characteristics, both in terms of the relationship between different cultural settlements and, within each settlement area, between its component parts. 3 The cities today are characterised by cultural pluralism. 4 Despite the fact that they were deliberately planned to promote residential segregation, they are now required to promote processes of integration, at the national, cultural, social, economic and ethnic levels. 5 In comparison with urban centres in industrial societies and, in many cases, according to their own administrators, these cities all have problems of housing, a shortage of economic resources, under-developed communication systems and a lack of the institutional infrastructure required to deal with social, administrative and political needs.