Pre-Colonial Origins of Urban Spaces in the West African Sahel: Street Networks, Trade, and Spatial Plurality
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/19:79739
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144217746375" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144217746375</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144217746375" target="_blank" >10.1177/0096144217746375</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pre-Colonial Origins of Urban Spaces in the West African Sahel: Street Networks, Trade, and Spatial Plurality
Original language description
Present-day West African towns allow us to study how urban space developed in this region. The urban street networks and layout of residential quarters to some extent preserve the possible movement patterns of pre-colonial urbanites. Long-distance trade, in what is ultimately a liminal and transitory locale, linked the urban nodes on the “coast” of the Sahara. This article takes a closer look on the distribution of streets and quarters as a unique kind of material heritage, as well as major trade routes, which linked into the towns. Analyses of the historic towns of Timbuktu and Djenne in Mali are used to demonstrate how the relationships between trade and urban residents were enacted in space. The structuring of the two towns put them in context with the tradition of dual settlements in West Africa, also finding parallels with the role of urban quarters in merchant towns of the East African coast.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Urban History
ISSN
0096-1442
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
500-516
UT code for WoS article
000464500800004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85064462059