Planning Belgian Congo’s network of medical infrastructure: type-plans as tools to construct a medical model-colony, 1949–1959
Throughout the 1950s, the Belgian colonial government constructed a vast network of hospital infrastructure as part of its Ten-Year Plan, a colony-wide socio-economic scheme emblematic for the era of ‘welfare colonialism.’ This network played a key role in Belgian colonialism, by providing healthcare, but also by boosting labour productivity, facilitating state presence and control, and by advertising Congo as a medical model-colony. In this article, we unpack the extensive administrative apparatus that was necessary to buttress this ambitious building programme, and we highlight type-plans as... Mehr ...
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Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
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Routledge
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Schlagwörter: | Belgian Congo / Colonial Architecture / hospital architecture / type-plan |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28875226 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://architexturez.net//doc/doi-10-1080/02665433-2019-1633950 |