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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the(...)
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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the(...)
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Writing the city into being: essays on Johannesburg
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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the twenty-first-century city, attracting scholars from around the world who seek to understand how cities are changing in the face of urban migration in all its myriad forms and the inflow of foreign capital and interest. Writing the City into Being is an important book for those seeking to understand cities in a rapidly changing and fragmenting world. Lindsay Bremner is a guide to the city of Johannesburg, and one of its most incisive commentators.
Writing the city into being: essays on Johannesburg
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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the twenty-first-century city, attracting scholars from around the world who seek to understand how cities are changing in the face of urban migration in all its myriad forms and the inflow of foreign capital and interest. Writing the City into Being is an important book for those seeking to understand cities in a rapidly changing and fragmenting world. Lindsay Bremner is a guide to the city of Johannesburg, and one of its most incisive commentators.
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March 2011
March 2011
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, the author reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city”(...)
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Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, the author reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city”(...)
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City of extremes: the spatial politics of Johannesburg
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Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, the author reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city” composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the “global cities” paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
City of extremes: the spatial politics of Johannesburg
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Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, the author reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city” composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the “global cities” paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
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November 2010
November 2010
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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De la case à la villa
De la case à la villa
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Ce volume traite du concept d'habiter dans l'architecture africaine, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple du Cameroun en particulier, chez les Barmiléké de l'Ouest et les Duala du Littoral, région dont Épée Ellong est originaire.
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Ce volume traite du concept d'habiter dans l'architecture africaine, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple du Cameroun en particulier, chez les Barmiléké de l'Ouest et les Duala du Littoral, région dont Épée Ellong est originaire.
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De la case à la villa
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Ce volume traite du concept d'habiter dans l'architecture africaine, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple du Cameroun en particulier, chez les Barmiléké de l'Ouest et les Duala du Littoral, région dont Épée Ellong est originaire.
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Ce volume traite du concept d'habiter dans l'architecture africaine, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple du Cameroun en particulier, chez les Barmiléké de l'Ouest et les Duala du Littoral, région dont Épée Ellong est originaire.
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July 2014
July 2014
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the(...)
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the(...)
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SUDU : the sustainable urban dwelling unit in Ethiopia, 2 volumes
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the construction process itself while providing historical and technical context. The second part functions as a manual, providing a detailed list of tools, materials, and step-by-step instructions that can be used by readers to carry out their own SUDU project.
SUDU : the sustainable urban dwelling unit in Ethiopia, 2 volumes
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the construction process itself while providing historical and technical context. The second part functions as a manual, providing a detailed list of tools, materials, and step-by-step instructions that can be used by readers to carry out their own SUDU project.
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June 2015
June 2015
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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This biography of an experiment takes the reader into another world. As if standing before a Mirror, everything seems familiar but remains unknown. Such ambiguity is at the heart of the story told in The School, the Book, the Town, a story about the unfolding of a research project undertaken in Ethiopia for nearly a decade.
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This biography of an experiment takes the reader into another world. As if standing before a Mirror, everything seems familiar but remains unknown. Such ambiguity is at the heart of the story told in The School, the Book, the Town, a story about the unfolding of a research project undertaken in Ethiopia for nearly a decade.
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The school, the book, the town : logbook, Ethiopia in a timeline
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This biography of an experiment takes the reader into another world. As if standing before a Mirror, everything seems familiar but remains unknown. Such ambiguity is at the heart of the story told in The School, the Book, the Town, a story about the unfolding of a research project undertaken in Ethiopia for nearly a decade.
The school, the book, the town : logbook, Ethiopia in a timeline
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This biography of an experiment takes the reader into another world. As if standing before a Mirror, everything seems familiar but remains unknown. Such ambiguity is at the heart of the story told in The School, the Book, the Town, a story about the unfolding of a research project undertaken in Ethiopia for nearly a decade.
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November 2013
November 2013
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Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump,(...)
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Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump,(...)
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Sluminsider: Mathare, Nairobi
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Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture,design, agriculture, photography and video. This project is one of the case studies used for comparison and dialogue with the city of São Paulo and the São Paulo Calling research project, which examined the informal settlements of Rome, Nairobi, Medellin, Mumbai, Moscow and Baghdad. For six months, an exhibition analyzed the characteristics, differences and causes of informal settlements, developing six workshops in the field in different favelas of São Paulo and organizing size encounters that made São Paulo the world capital of the debate on transformation of contemporary cities.
Sluminsider: Mathare, Nairobi
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Sluminsider is a choral narrative that attempts to reveal the complexity of the slum of Mathare, one of the biggest shantytowns in Nairobi. The project of expansion of a street school, the Why Not Junior Academy, and the process of environmental improvement of the surrounding area, where a community agriculture initiative has been set up to replace an unauthorized dump, is the starting point from which to combine experiences and identities from very different disciplines, including architecture,design, agriculture, photography and video. This project is one of the case studies used for comparison and dialogue with the city of São Paulo and the São Paulo Calling research project, which examined the informal settlements of Rome, Nairobi, Medellin, Mumbai, Moscow and Baghdad. For six months, an exhibition analyzed the characteristics, differences and causes of informal settlements, developing six workshops in the field in different favelas of São Paulo and organizing size encounters that made São Paulo the world capital of the debate on transformation of contemporary cities.
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August 2013
August 2013
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
