ABSTRACT
The major metropolis in almost every newly-industrialising country is not a single unified city, but, in fact, two quite different cities, physically juxtaposed but architecturally and socially distinct.… These dual cities have usually been a legacy from the colonial past. It is remarkable that so common a phenomenon has remained almost unstudied. We have no real case-studies of the introduction of western urban forms into non-western countries… a knowledge of the process whereby the former were introduced is of interest not merely historically… but also as an example of culture change. Anthropologists have long studied the process of cultural diffusion of simple artifacts. How much more important to study the transplanting of man's most complex artifact – the modern city (Janet Abu-Lughod, ‘Tale of two cities: the origins of modern Cairo’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 7 (1965), p.429).
