Main entry:

Documenta (11th : 2002 : Lagos, Nigeria)

Title & Author:

Under siege, four African cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos : Documenta 11, Platform 4 / edited by Okwui Enwezor [and others].

Publication:

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; New York : Distribution in the USA D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, ©2002.

Description:

454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
"This volume contains all contributions to Documenta 11P̲latform 4, 'Under Siege: Four African Cities - Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, ' a conference and workshop held in Lagos, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, March 16-20, 2002"--Title page verso.
"This volume contains all contributions to Documenta 11 ̲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.
Includes bibliographical references.
The visible and invisible : remaking cities in Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Order and disorder in African cities : governance, politics, and urban land development processes / Carole Rakodi -- Between euphemism and informalism : inventing the city / Antoine Bouillon -- Figures of the subject in times of crisis / Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman -- Popular shaping of metropolitan forms and processes in Nigeria : glimpses and interpretations from an informed Lagosian / Babatunde A. Ahonsi -- Closure, simulation, and "making do" in the contemporary Johannesburg landscape / Lindsay J. Bremner -- Fragments of a lecture on Lagos / Rem Koolhaas -- Kinshasa : beyond chaos / Thierry Nlandu -- Space, culture, and agency in contemporary Freetown : the making and remaking of a postcolonial city / Ibrahim Abdullah -- "There's space for Africa in the new South Africa " : African migrants and urban governance in Johannesburg / Maxine Reitzes -- Regenerating downtown Lagos / Koku Konu -- Kinshasa : tales of the "invisible city" and the second world / Filip De Boeck with photographs by Marie-Françoise Plissart -- Freetown : from the "Athens of West Africa" to a city under siege : the rise and fall of sub-Saharan first municipality / Alfred B. Zack-Williams -- Writing the anxious city : images of Lagos in Nigerian home video films / Onookome Okome -- The production of the city and urban informalities : the borough of Thiaroye-sur-mer in the city of Pikine, Senegal / Mohamadou Abdoul -- Welfare associations and the dynamics of city politics in Nigeria : Jos metropolis as case study / Victor A.O. Adetula -- Housing in Marrakech : the contradictions of public interventions / Mohammed Gheris -- Kisangani and the curve of destiny / Jean Omasombo Tshonda --Environment and inhabitants of an unplanned area of Zaria, Nigeria / Mohammed-Bello Yunusa -- The city center : a shifting concept in the history of Addis Ababa / Bahru Zewde.

ISBN:

377579090X (paperback)
9783775790901 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns Africa Congresses.
Land use, Urban Africa Congresses.
Africa.
2002.
urban sociology.
urban society.
capitals.
conference papers (form)
Villes Afrique Congrès.
Utilisation urbaine du sol Afrique Congrès.
Cities and towns
Land use, Urban
Social conditions
Urbanisatie.
Metropolen.
City planning Africa Congresses.
City planning Nigeria Lagos Congresses.
City planning Sierra Leone Freetown Congresses.
City planning South Africa Johannesburg Congresses.
City planning Congo Kinshasa Congresses.
Africa Social conditions 1960-
Lagos (Nigeria)
Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Johannesburg (South Africa)
Kinshasa (Congo)
Afrique Conditions sociales 1960-
Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa
Nigeria Lagos
Sierra Leone Freetown
South Africa Johannesburg

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Enwezor, Okwui.

Documenta 11, Platform 4

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226650
Call No.: N6488.G3 K3 2001c
Status: Available