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Gender-biased Street Naming in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: Influential Factors, Features and Future Recommendations." Journal of Asian and African Studies 56, no. 3 (2021): 589-609.
"Configuring the Colonial Grid in Senegal: Comptoirs, escales, villages de liberté, communes and Capitals." In Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal, 89-143. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
"Entangled Grids: Vernacular and (Post-)Colonial Planning Interactions in Contemporary Senegalese Cities." In Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal, 145-197. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
"Introduction: Historiographic Traditions, Grid-Plan Cultures and Africa In Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
The Vernacular Grid in Senegal: The Popularization of an Elite Spatial Practice." In Grid Planning in the Urban Design Practices of Senegal, 39-88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
"The crisscross of gridded traditions in two Senegalese cities." Architext, no. 7 (2019): 94-113.
"The urban grid and entangled planning cultures in Senegal." Planning Perspectives 34, no. 5 (2019): 779-804.
"Power and Social Control in Settler and Exploitation Colonies: The Experience of New France and French Colonial Africa." Journal of Asian and African Studies 53, no. 6 (2018): 932-951.
"Bubonic Plague, Colonial Ideologies and Urban Planning Policies: Dakar, Lagos and Kumasi." Planning Perspectives 31, 2 (2016): 205-226.
"Introduction." In Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories, edited by L. Bigon, 1-25. Cham: Springer, 2016.
"Introduction." In Place names in Africa: Colonial urban legacies, entangled histories, edited by L. Bigon, 1-25. Cham: Springer, 2016.
"The making of the central markets of Dakar and Kinshasa: from colonial origins to the post-colonial period." Urban History 43 (Markets in modernization: transformations in urban market space and practice, c. 1800 - c. 1970) (2016): 412-434.
"Military Settlement Forms in Colonial Dakar and Western Sudan: Hesitative Moments." Journal of Asian and African Studies 51 (2016): 494-508.
"A Toponymy of Segregation: The ‘Neutral Zones’ of Dakar, Dar Es Salaam and Kinshasa." In Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories, edited by L. Bigon, 105-122. Switzerland: Springer, 2016.
"The Toponymic Inscription Problematic in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa: From Colonial to Postcolonial Times." Journal of Asian and African Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 25-40.
"City Planning: Yorùbá City Planning.", 2014.
"Garden cities in colonial Africa: a note on historiography." Planning Perspectives 28 (2013): 477-485.
"(Re-)Producing the Marché Kermel. Between Globalism and Historicism." Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem 24 (2013).
"Garden City’ in the Tropics? French Dakar in Comparative Perspective." Journal of Historical Geography 38 (2012): 35-44.
"A History of Urban Planning and Infectious Diseases: Colonial Senegal in the Early Twentieth Century." Urban Studies Research (2012).
"Urban planning, colonial doctrines and street naming in French Dakar and British Lagos." Urban History 36, no. 3 (2009): 426-448.
"Names, norms and forms: French and indigenous toponyms in early colonial Dakar, Senegal." Planning Perspectives 23 (2008): 479-501.
"Sanitation and street layout in early colonial Lagos: British and indigenous conceptions, 1851–1900." Planning Perspectives 20 (2005): 247-269.
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