The impact of the colonial racial and cultural segregation in Nigeria on planning Kano Urban area

Abstract EN

This paper pertains to the conceptual rules of British colonial town planning policy in Kano, which were built upon racial and cultural segregation between the Europeans and all other nationalities on one hand, and between each ethnic group and the others on the other hand.

Therefore, the new colonial township which the colonial administration established alongside the walled Kano city has become a collection of segments divided according to function and ethnic, economic, social, cultural, and administrative context.

However, Kano city as a Muslim, and an indigenous city retained its old layout, traditional town- plan and socio-cultural characteristics.

This concomitant urban contrast between old and new cities in urban areas, in African, Arab and Muslim countries, has become a barrier on the road to urban unification and modern and sound urban planning projects