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Italian ColonialismPreservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonization and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya

Italian Colonialism: Preservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonization and the Walled City... [Scholars periodically return to the study of how French administrators and architects handled urban settings in North Africa, beginning with the occupation of Algiers in 1830. Italian occupation of Libya began much later, in 1911, but in the thirty-two years of their effective rule, Italians also had sufficient time to be both destructive and constructive in significant ways. In this chapter, I discuss attitudes to the walled city of Tripoli on the part of military personnel, government bureaucrats, and planners—the people who decided how to reshape Tripoli, and whose voices fill the documents in the archives of the colonial administration. In these policies, I read what looks like Italian actions leading to the relative preservation of Tripoli’s walled city as a series of planning choices that were, in reality, more passive than active. There was no detailed program to preserve old Tripoli, but decisions were made to shore it up just enough so that the city would require the least attention and investment possible. The Italian treatment of Tripoli’s walled city is thus a negative instance of preservation policy, or a case of preservation by default.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismPreservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonization and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Fuller, Mia
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
131 –142
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_12
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Abstract

[Scholars periodically return to the study of how French administrators and architects handled urban settings in North Africa, beginning with the occupation of Algiers in 1830. Italian occupation of Libya began much later, in 1911, but in the thirty-two years of their effective rule, Italians also had sufficient time to be both destructive and constructive in significant ways. In this chapter, I discuss attitudes to the walled city of Tripoli on the part of military personnel, government bureaucrats, and planners—the people who decided how to reshape Tripoli, and whose voices fill the documents in the archives of the colonial administration. In these policies, I read what looks like Italian actions leading to the relative preservation of Tripoli’s walled city as a series of planning choices that were, in reality, more passive than active. There was no detailed program to preserve old Tripoli, but decisions were made to shore it up just enough so that the city would require the least attention and investment possible. The Italian treatment of Tripoli’s walled city is thus a negative instance of preservation policy, or a case of preservation by default.]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Master Plan; Walled City; French Colonial; Italian Action; Italian Treatment

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