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Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar

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Author: Cohen, Michael

Source: Built Environment, Volume 33, Number 2, 31 May 2007, pp. 145-156(12)

Publisher: Alexandrine Press

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.33.2.145

This article examines the issues of density and urban form through the evaluation of the first World Bank-financed urban development project, the Senegal sites and services project in the 1970s. The article explores the implications of changes in the density of the project area over 34 years in the context of the growth and development of Dakar. It offers some unusual conclusions about how project design incorporates density in projects for low-income populations and how density itself changes over time as a result of project design. Specifically it argues that density was used as an absolute design parameter in the 1970s but has changed into a relational value or attribute which now explains in part why densities have increased fivefold.

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 31 May 2007

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