Une ville construite par des « gens d’ailleurs ». Développements urbains à Elisabethville, Congo belge (actuellement Lubumbashi, RDC)

Abstract

The first discussions about architecture in Belgian Congo underlined the hasty character of the new urban developments in the rich mining province Katanga. The mining city Elisabethville, founded in 1910 to become the colony’s provincial capital and economic center, was strongly criticized for the use of uninteresting imported urban schemes. Yet, apart from the emergence of an urban landscape of dubious quality, it was the absence of Belgian architects and urban planners on the Belgian coloni...