ABSTRACT
Despite the extensive research conducted worldwide on colonial cities, little is known about the effects and performance of the principles that guided the urban planning of these cities. While the studies have increased our knowledge about the history of colonial cities, they mainly analyse the urban planning produced for those cities. Only a few have tried to trace the origins of the urban planning principles, e.g. the Garden Cities theory, implemented in the cities (Bigon, 2013; Home, 2009; Matos and Ramos, 2008). Others have examined the relationships between the different actors that worked in specific colonial cities (Ramos and Matos, 2012) but without analysing the planning principles they followed.
