Governing economic interests: Interwar road construction in Belgian Congo

Contrary to the well-recognised relation between railroad infrastructure and emerging cities in the Belgian colony, the development of the Congolese road network was more closely connected to accessing the colonial hinterland and the expanding the rural economy. This latter link remains underresearc...

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Main Author: Laurence Heindryckx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2020-10-01
Series:Belgeo
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/43202