Monrovia Modern : Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia /

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"In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoffman, Danny, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politik
Moderne
Bauweise
Architektur
Urban anthropology.
Architecture > Political aspects.
Architecture and anthropology.
Architecture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Architecture et anthropologie > Liberia > Monrovia.
Anthropologie urbaine > Liberia > Monrovia.
Architecture > Political aspects > Liberia > Monrovia.
Architecture > Liberia > Monrovia.
Architecture and anthropology > Liberia > Monrovia.
Urban anthropology > Liberia > Monrovia.
Liberia
Liberia > Monrovia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Live dangerously, my brothers: ex-combatants and the political economy of space
  • The Ministry of defense: excessive architecture
  • E. J. Roye: the corporate (post)modern
  • Hotel Africa: the uncritical ruin
  • Liberia broadcasting system: three utopias
  • Finding urban form: a coda.

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