Lagos : a cultural and historical imagination /
Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-Saharan Africa and possibly the world's third largest city. This phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady tu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, Virginia :
Andrews UK Limited,
2013.
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Colección: | Cities of the imagination.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, expected in some projections to have a population of 25 million by 2025. This will make it the biggest metropolis in sub-Saharan Africa and possibly the world's third largest city. This phenomenal and continuing growth gives it a heady turbulence, especially as it only took on the form of a coherent urban entity in the eighteenth century. After Nigeria's independence Lagos remained both trading hub and, for thirty years, a federal capi ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, map |
ISBN: | 9781908493897 1908493895 1908493054 9781908493057 |