Age of Concrete : Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morton, David, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Housing.
Economic history.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Housing > Mozambique > Maputo > History.
Mozambique > Maputo.
Maputo (Mozambique) > Social conditions.
Maputo (Mozambique) > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The spaces of Lourenc¸o Marques
  • The politics of visibility: the "City of Reeds" debate, 1962/65
  • The politics of proximity: clandestine masonry house construction in the subu´rbios, c. 1960/74
  • An immovable legacy: the nationalization of housing and its consequences, 1976/92
  • Planning in the subu´rbios, 1977/92
  • Conclusion: multiple trajectories.

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