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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary(...)
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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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September 2008, Durham
September 2008, Durham
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Johannesburg: the elusive metropolis
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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique's capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg's cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anti-colonial projects of Ghandi and Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, living as foreigners in the city, and built spaces.
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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique's capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg's cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anti-colonial projects of Ghandi and Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, living as foreigners in the city, and built spaces.
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September 2008, Durham
September 2008, Durham
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized,(...)
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized,(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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June 2008, Rotterdam
June 2008, Rotterdam
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Douala in Translation: a view of the city and its creative transformative potentials
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized, with 20 entries and hundreds of full-color photos.
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized, with 20 entries and hundreds of full-color photos.
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June 2008, Rotterdam
June 2008, Rotterdam
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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April 2019
April 2019
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Metabolism of an emerging town in Ethiopia: the case of Amdework
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
Metabolism of an emerging town in Ethiopia: the case of Amdework
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The emergence of densely populated towns within extremely rural landscapes is the hallmark of urbanization in Ethiopia. This book examines one such town, Amdework. The authors construct a profile that reveals a broader geographic view of the processes that underpin the functioning, growth and development of this town.
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April 2019
April 2019
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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and(...)
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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
Architecture since 1900, Africa
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October 2022
October 2022
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Agadir: Building the modern Afropolis
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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects—national and international—to simultaneously design the new city. The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries, and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis.
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On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects—national and international—to simultaneously design the new city. The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries, and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality: a modern Afropolis.
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October 2022
October 2022
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Architecture since 1900, Africa
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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.
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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
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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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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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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.
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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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Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural ‘discoveries’ of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as “the Miami of(...)
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Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural ‘discoveries’ of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as “the Miami of(...)
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History until 1900, Middle East
History until 1900, Middle East
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September 2003, London
September 2003, London
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Asmara : Africa's secret modernist city
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Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural ‘discoveries’ of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as “the Miami of Africa”. Desperate to build quickly, the colonial government of the time allowed radical architectural experimentation that would not have found favour in the more conservative European environment. Asmara therefore became one of the world’s prime locations for architectural innovation during the Modern Movement. That this occurred at all is remarkable enough, but that these buildings should have survived in such numbers today makes it one of the finest modernist cities in the world. This is a building-by-building survey, illustrated with rare archival material and specially commissioned photographs
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Asmara, the capital of the small east African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural ‘discoveries’ of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of modernist architecture anywhere in the world, and has evocatively been described as “the Miami of Africa”. Desperate to build quickly, the colonial government of the time allowed radical architectural experimentation that would not have found favour in the more conservative European environment. Asmara therefore became one of the world’s prime locations for architectural innovation during the Modern Movement. That this occurred at all is remarkable enough, but that these buildings should have survived in such numbers today makes it one of the finest modernist cities in the world. This is a building-by-building survey, illustrated with rare archival material and specially commissioned photographs
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September 2003, London
September 2003, London
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History until 1900, Middle East
History until 1900, Middle East
