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The colonies of the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggist cities in the world; colonial policy and planning have had a profound impact in the form and functioning of these cities. Robert Home provides a critical assessment of the impact of British colonialism on world urban Developmenmt:

- the lagacy of Shaftesbury's Grand Modell in the New World and elsewhere

- the origins of racial segregation, from Raffles' Singapore to apartheid South Africa

- the building and renewal of port cities across the continents

- the new house forms devised from the verandah bungalow to the barrack block

- the control of city space by doctors and engineers

Robert Home is Professor of Land Management, and teaches Environmental Law and Planning subjects. He holds a degree in History (Cambridge) and a PhD in Geography from LSE, and is also a chartered town planner. He has researched widely on planning and land management topics in Europe and the Third World, and is a specialist in local authority accommodation assessments for Gypsies and Travellers (Bedfordshire, Cambridge sub-region, Dorset, East and North Surrey undertaken to date).

His publications include: books on Third World planning, land titling in Africa and the Caribbean, Gypsies, and inner city regeneration; recent articles in Socio-Legal Studies, Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, Habitat International, Planning Perspectives, Planning History, Romani Studies and elsewhere; and chapter contributions to books on the Gypsies of Britain and feminist approaches to land law. He is currently editing a book for Hart Publications, Squatters or settlers: Rethinking ownership, occupation and use in land law, comprising papers given to a recent workshop held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati (Spain). He also contributes to the UN-Habitat Global Land Tools Network, and has undertaken many overseas consultancies (including to Zambia, Bulgaria and Macedonia).

PREFACE vii
INTRODUCTION: ‘THE CHIEF EXPORTER OF MUNICIPALITIES’ 1
1. THE ‘GRAND MODELL’ OF COLONIAL SETTLEMENT 9
2. ‘PLANTING IS MY TRADE’: THE SHAPERS OF COLONIAL URBAN 41
LANDSCAPES
3. PORT CITIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: A ‘GLOBAL 71
THALASSOCRACY’
4. THE ‘WAREHOUSING’ OF THE LABOURING CLASSES 98
5. ‘THE INCONVENIENCE FELT BY EUROPEANS’: RACIAL 138
SEGREGATION, ITS RISE AND FALL
6. ‘MIRACLE–WORKER TO THE PEOPLE’: THE IDEA OF TOWN 167
PLANNING (1910–1935)
7. ‘THIS NOVEL LEGISLATION’: INSTITUTIONALIZING TOWN 204
PLANNING (1900–1950)
8. ‘WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO YOU WANT?’ THE TRANSITION TO 231
INDEPENDENCE
CONCLUSIONS: THE LEGACY OF COLONIAL TOWN PLANNING 262
Bibliography 266
Glossary and Abbreviations 292
Index 294
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