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Age of concrete : housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of Mozambique /
Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | New African histories series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0821446754 9780821446751 |