‘THE INCONVENIENCE FELT BY EUROPEANS’: RACIAL SEGREGATION, ITS RISE AND FALL

Race has always been a part of colonialism and of colonial urban landscapes. In the words of Anthony King ‘The distinctive social charac-teristic of the colonial city…is the fact of race’ (King, 1990, p. 34). The spatial separation of races maintained both cultural differences and power relationships, and was not unique to the colonial cities of European expansion. Ancient Indian cities, for instance, were segregated according to occupation and caste. European colonialism, however, increasingly separated the races as an object of urban policy.