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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whiteman, Kaye
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, Virginia : Andrews UK Limited, 2013.
Colección:Cities of the imagination.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, map
ISBN:9781908493897
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