Under siege : four African cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos : Documenta 11_Platform 4
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Under siege : four African cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos : Documenta 11_Platform 4
Hatje Cantz , Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], c2002
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Under siege : four African cities : Documenta 11_Platform 4
Documenta 11_Platform 4
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"This volume contains all contributions to Documenta11_Platform4, 'Under Siege : four African cities--Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos,' a conference and workshop held in Lagos, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, March 16-20, 2002"--T.p. verso
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Procedural mechanisms of urban studies are working to interpret new urban paradigms that a century ago where largely absent in a great many cities around the world. African cities are becoming the exemplars for the emergence of new urban formations that are of great interest to many researchers working in the social sciences. This book underlines a central paradox that seems to rule the view of African cities, namely their inherent dynamism and obsolescence, and engages different kinds of understanding of subjectivity and the cultural, political, social sphere of present day African urban conditions.
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