Residential Segregation as Part of Imperial Policies

A Transnational Analysis for the Case of Windhoek

• Author(s): Pierre Tim Böhm ,
• Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
• Pages: 388
• ISBN_10: 3643910274
  ISBN_13: 9783643910271
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... Windhoek, capital city of South West Africa or modern Namibia, represents an extraordinary showpiece for overlapping colonial planning regimes. For the first time, this book focuses on the decades between both World Wars when German and South African planning laws were amalgamated. It reveals the actions taken to implement a system of residential segregation from a transnational perspective. As the analysis demonstrates, Windhoek tended to replicate the colonial idea of a Dual City. But in fact the administration created a Hybrid City and there was no predetermined path to apartheid.