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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780821446751 |