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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Morton, David, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Collection:New African histories series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0821446754
9780821446751