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David Morton

Age of Concrete

Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique

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Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical slums, these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious.Unlike many histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-8214-4675-1
  • EAN: 9780821446751
  • Produktnummer: 31905668
  • Verlag: Ohio University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 43'560 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


David Morton is assistant professor of African history at the University of British Columbia. As a journalist prior to his academic career, he wrote for publications such as Architectural Record, the New Republic, and Foreign Policy, and in Mozambique contributed to IRIN, the humanitarian news service.

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