Monrovia modern : urban form and political imagination in Liberia

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    • Hoffman, Danny

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Monrovia modern : urban form and political imagination in Liberia

Danny Hoffman

Duke University Press, 2017

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-202) and index

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内容説明

In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare of the 1990s from symbols of the modernist project of nation-building to reminders of the challenges Monrovia's residents face. The transient lives of these buildings' inhabitants, many of whom are ex-combatants, prevent them from making place-based claims to a right to the city and hinder their ability to think of ways to rebuild and repurpose their built environment. Featuring nearly 100 of Hoffman's color photographs, Monrovia Modern is situated at the intersection of photography, architecture, and anthropology, mapping out the possibilities and limits for imagining an urban future in Monrovia and beyond.

目次

Illustrations xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 1. Live Dangerously, My Brothers: Ex-Combatants and the Political Economy of Space 33 2. The Ministry of Defense: Excessive Architecture 61 3. E. J. Roye: The Corporate (Post)Modern 91 4. Hotel Africa: The Uncritical Ruin 115 5. Liberia Broadcasting System: Three Utopias 143 6. Finding Urban Form: A Coda 175 Notes 183 References 189 Index 203

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