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Urbanism and Its Expression in the African City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Jacques Binet  and
Susanna Contini
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In European cities there is a clear-cut separation between center and suburbs. During the Middle Ages mainly the dictates of military strategy brought about the crowding of the population inside a belt of ramparts. Periodically this corset of walls proved too narrow, and consequently suburbs grew up along the roads leading from the city. These suburbs were in turn incorporated into the city, to be protected by a new enclosure, causing the (older walls to become circular avenues. Paris is a classic example; with its three successive lines of avenues surrounding concentric areas.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 24 , Issue 93 , March 1976 , pp. 81 - 104
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Copyright © 1976 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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