Cansado, Mauritania, Africa
 
 
Year1963latitude: 20° 51'
longitude: -17° 1'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)Guy Lagneau
M. Weill
J. Dimitrijevic
Design organizationl'ATEA-SETAP
Inhabitants
Target population35,000
Town website
Town related links
Literature- 'Outre-Mer, Architectures Françaises', M. Culot, J-M. Thiveaud (ed), 1992 Liège, pp. 366
- Udo Kultermann, 'New Architecture in Africa', New York 1963

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 


source: Bertramz (2010)