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Italian ColonialismPublic Space and Public Face: Italian Fascist Urban Planning at Tripoli’s Colonial Trade Fair

Italian Colonialism: Public Space and Public Face: Italian Fascist Urban Planning at Tripoli’s... [From the first days of Italy’s military invasion in the fall of 1911, to the collapse of the Axis in World War II, Italian occupying forces in Libya faced the problem of how to establish control over the region. The sheer presence of Italian soldiers and settlers was not enough to overcome local resistance to the idea of European rule. Violence and expropriation would prove an equally inadequate basis for long-term domination. By the late 1920s and 1930s, spurred by new advances in urban planning, fascist colonial administrators devised new cultural, administrative, and spatial policies to guarantee Italian interests. Much of their energy was devoted to reshaping the coastal city of Tripoli. By the mid-1950s, Tripoli would become the capital of fascist Italy’s newly unified, newly annexed, nineteenth province, and a showcase of Italian achievements in Africa.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismPublic Space and Public Face: Italian Fascist Urban Planning at Tripoli’s Colonial Trade Fair

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
von Henneberg, Krystyna
Italian Colonialism — Feb 17, 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
155 –165
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_14
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Abstract

[From the first days of Italy’s military invasion in the fall of 1911, to the collapse of the Axis in World War II, Italian occupying forces in Libya faced the problem of how to establish control over the region. The sheer presence of Italian soldiers and settlers was not enough to overcome local resistance to the idea of European rule. Violence and expropriation would prove an equally inadequate basis for long-term domination. By the late 1920s and 1930s, spurred by new advances in urban planning, fascist colonial administrators devised new cultural, administrative, and spatial policies to guarantee Italian interests. Much of their energy was devoted to reshaping the coastal city of Tripoli. By the mid-1950s, Tripoli would become the capital of fascist Italy’s newly unified, newly annexed, nineteenth province, and a showcase of Italian achievements in Africa.]

Published: Feb 17, 2016

Keywords: Public Space; Spatial Policy; Colonial Authority; Hybrid Space; Public Face

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