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Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa.

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Superior document:Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa Series ; v.1
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Tomkinson, Joanne.
TeilnehmendeR:
Mulugeta, Daniel.
Gallagher, Julia.
Yekoyesew, Dawit.
Ofori-Sarpong, Emmanuel K.
Ncube, Innocent Batsani.
Addo, Irene Appeaning.
Gibert, Marie.
Patel, Yusuf.
Yeboah, Tony.
Place / Publishing House:Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa Series
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Making and Remaking the African City: Studies in Urban Africa Series ; v.1
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Buildings are the stuff of politics -- PART 1 MAKING -- 1: Global ambitions and national identity in Ethiopia's airport expansion -- 2: Building heaven on earth: Political rhetoric and ritual over Ghana's national cathedral -- 3: China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi -- 4: Foreign ideas in Ghana's public housing programmes -- PART 2 LIVING -- 5: Beautiful state/ugly state: Architecture and political authority in Côte d'Ivoire -- 6: Colonial legacies in architectures of consumption: The case of Sam Levy's Village in Harare -- 7: Public spaces? Public goods? Reinventing Nairobi's public libraries -- 8: The role of architecture in South African detention cases during the apartheid era -- PART 3 IMAGINING -- 9: The African Union headquarters and its popular imagery in Ethiopia and Nigeria -- 10: The politics and imaginary reconstruction of the Asante Palace, Kumase -- 11: From prison to freedom: Overwriting the past, imagining Nigeria -- Afterword: Theorising the politics of unformal(ised) architectures -- Bibliography -- Index.
Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material and the ideational realms of contemporary life in Africa.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Electronic books.
Mulugeta, Daniel.
Gallagher, Julia.
Yekoyesew, Dawit.
Ofori-Sarpong, Emmanuel K.
Ncube, Innocent Batsani.
Addo, Irene Appeaning.
Gibert, Marie.
Patel, Yusuf.
Yeboah, Tony.
Print version: Tomkinson, Joanne Architecture and Politics in Africa Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,c2022
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