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Age of Concrete: Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical `slums,` these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people`s highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Englisch, Ebook.

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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 and greatest bequest to the future.

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Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical “slums,” these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that embodies people’s highest aspirations. First they built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Unlike other histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. David Morton thus models a different way of thinking about urban politics during the era of decolonization, in which the drama was in the construction of the urban stage itself, shaping how people related not only to each other, but also to the colonial state and then to the independent state stumbling into being. Original, deeply researched, and beautifully composed, this book speaks in innovative ways to scholarship on urban history, colonialism and decolonization, and the postcolonial state. Replete with rare photographs and forgotten documents, it establishes Morton as one of a handful of scholars breaking innovative ground on how we understand Africa’s cities., Hardcover, Edition: 1, Label: Ohio University Press, Ohio University Press, Product group: Book, Published: 2019-07-23, Release date: 2019-07-23, Studio: Ohio University Press.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Not yet published, free shipping for AmazonPrime only. Regular USD 4.98.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical “slums,” these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that embodies people’s highest aspirations. First they built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Unlike other histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. David Morton thus models a different way of thinking about urban politics during the era of decolonization, in which the drama was in the construction of the urban stage itself, shaping how people related not only to each other, but also to the colonial state and then to the independent state stumbling into being. Original, deeply researched, and beautifully composed, this book speaks in innovative ways to scholarship on urban history, colonialism and decolonization, and the postcolonial state. Replete with rare photographs and forgotten documents, it establishes Morton as one of a handful of scholars breaking innovative ground on how we understand Africa’s cities., Paperback, Edition: 1, Label: Ohio University Press, Ohio University Press, Product group: Book, Published: 2019-07-23, Release date: 2019-07-23, Studio: Ohio University Press, Sales rank: 7052954.