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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary(...)
Architecture since 1900, Africa
September 2008, Durham
Johannesburg: the elusive metropolis
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This book is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. The volume's essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique's capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg's cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anti-colonial projects of Ghandi and Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, living as foreigners in the city, and built spaces.
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L’Afrique connaît aujourd’hui une croissance urbaine rapide qui se traduit par une multiplication des constructions en béton. Le ciment, composant essentiel de ce matériau, est devenu le symbole de cette urbanisation frénétique qui bouleverse le paysage des villes africaines. Plus qu’une simple matière inerte, il se charge d’affect et de valeurs et redéfinit les pratiques(...)
Matière grise de l'urbain : la vie du ciment en Africa
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L’Afrique connaît aujourd’hui une croissance urbaine rapide qui se traduit par une multiplication des constructions en béton. Le ciment, composant essentiel de ce matériau, est devenu le symbole de cette urbanisation frénétique qui bouleverse le paysage des villes africaines. Plus qu’une simple matière inerte, il se charge d’affect et de valeurs et redéfinit les pratiques et les imaginaires de sociétés en quête d’émergence économique et de réussite sociale, alors même qu’à l’heure du dérèglement climatique des voix s’élèvent pour dénoncer une industrie cimentière aux effets destructeurs sur l’environnement. Pour comprendre la production et la consommation grandissante de cette poudre banale devenue « or gris », Armelle Choplin nous invite à suivre les sacs de ciment sur les routes ouest-africaine, le long du corridor urbain de 500 km qui relie Accra, Lomé, Cotonou et Lagos. Depuis la carrière de calcaire jusqu’à la parcelle en chantier, l’auteure nous amène à la rencontre des géants du secteur, des investisseurs, des acteurs politiques mais aussi des maçons et des habitants qui construisent leur propre maison « en dur ». À travers l’exploration d’une filière au coeur de multiples enjeux politiques, sociaux et économiques, cet ouvrage nous appelle à repenser les rapports étroits qui lient l’urbain, l’humain et le monde.
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Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest growing economies, largely due to its investments in infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that(...)
Under construction: technologies of development in urban Ethiopia
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Over the past decade, Ethiopia has had one of the world's fastest growing economies, largely due to its investments in infrastructure, and it is through building dams, roads, and other infrastructure that the Ethiopian state seeks to become a middle-income country by 2025. Yet most urban Ethiopians struggle to meet their daily needs and actively oppose a ruling party that they associate with corruption and mismanagement. In "Under Construction" Daniel Mains explores the intersection of development and governance by examining the conflicts surrounding the construction of specific infrastructural technologies: asphalt and cobblestone roads, motorcycle taxis, and hydroelectric dams. These projects serve as sites for nation building and the means for the state to assert its legitimacy.
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C'est à la découverte de près de deux siècles d'architectures que nous convient les auteurs de cette publication. Deuxième plus grande ville d'Algérie, Oran possède un patrimoine architectural exceptionnel, témoignage des différentes strates d'occupation qu'elle a connues. L'ouvrage permet de découvrir un large éventail de programmes architecturaux : constructions(...)
Architecture since 1900, Africa
December 2021
Oran : ville & architecture 1790-1960
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C'est à la découverte de près de deux siècles d'architectures que nous convient les auteurs de cette publication. Deuxième plus grande ville d'Algérie, Oran possède un patrimoine architectural exceptionnel, témoignage des différentes strates d'occupation qu'elle a connues. L'ouvrage permet de découvrir un large éventail de programmes architecturaux : constructions militaires espagnoles, monuments ottomans, immeubles de style Art déco, logements et équipements modernistes des années 1950-1960. La publication se présente sous la forme de six promenades regroupant de courtes monographies de près de 250 édifices, bâtiments publics et immeubles privés. Elle contient également les notices biographiques de plus d'une centaine d'architectes actifs durant la période. Résultat d'un inventaire de terrain minutieux croisé avec des recherches dans les archives algériennes, espagnoles et françaises, l'ouvrage est à la fois une publication scientifique de référence et un guide d'architecture. Il s'adresse autant aux spécialistes, architectes et historiens, qu'à un public d'amateurs des deux rives de la Méditerranée.
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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the(...)
Writing the city into being: essays on Johannesburg
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Writing the City into Being is Bremner’s collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of a city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Johannesburg has become a touchstone in critical thinking on the development of the twenty-first-century city, attracting scholars from around the world who seek to understand how cities are changing in the face of urban migration in all its myriad forms and the inflow of foreign capital and interest. Writing the City into Being is an important book for those seeking to understand cities in a rapidly changing and fragmenting world. Lindsay Bremner is a guide to the city of Johannesburg, and one of its most incisive commentators.
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the(...)
SUDU : the sustainable urban dwelling unit in Ethiopia, 2 volumes
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The Sustainable Urban Dwelling Unit (SUDU), which emerged out of a summer workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is a new, sustainable housing alternative that can be self-constructed with minimal technical ability, low start-up costs, and local materials (such as soil). This publication documents the building process in two parts: the first part narratively records the construction process itself while providing historical and technical context. The second part functions as a manual, providing a detailed list of tools, materials, and step-by-step instructions that can be used by readers to carry out their own SUDU project.
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Lorsqu'en 1962 l'Algérie accède à son indépendance, la population hérite d'un espace façonné pendant 132 ans par l'architecture de l'Etat colonial français. De façon inédite dans l'histoire, un peuple va concrètement habiter l'indépendance, en investissant massivement un environnement bâti pour l'exclure, voire lui nuire. Ancré plus particulièrement à Alger, cet ouvrage(...)
Habiter l'indépendance : Alger, conditions d'une architecture de l'occupation
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Lorsqu'en 1962 l'Algérie accède à son indépendance, la population hérite d'un espace façonné pendant 132 ans par l'architecture de l'Etat colonial français. De façon inédite dans l'histoire, un peuple va concrètement habiter l'indépendance, en investissant massivement un environnement bâti pour l'exclure, voire lui nuire. Ancré plus particulièrement à Alger, cet ouvrage revient sur les conditions d'une expérimentation urbaine et questionne la composante coloniale de l'architecture et de son enseignement, au fil du temps, dans les corpus français comme algériens. Fruit d'une réflexion collective transdisciplinaire qui ose aborder des sujets peu traités, de l'architecture carcérale à la trajectoire de la statuaire coloniale, cette exploration critique de l'aménagement d'Alger entend mettre en lumière les pratiques de la ville par les personnes qui l'habitent.
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A 1988 UN Habitat seminar considered issues of housing construction in "developing countries." Included in the presentation was a prefabricated building system designed by East German architects, which was used in an education and development center operated by the African National Congress in Tanzania. In this publication, a multidisciplinary and international group(...)
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April 2024
Doors of learning: microcosms of a future South Africa
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A 1988 UN Habitat seminar considered issues of housing construction in "developing countries." Included in the presentation was a prefabricated building system designed by East German architects, which was used in an education and development center operated by the African National Congress in Tanzania. In this publication, a multidisciplinary and international group of artists, curators, historians and researchers reflect on the education and development centers as radical experiments in learning and living, as well as their spatial and design implementation in the context of the efforts to create a future democratic South Africa free of racism. This book focuses on why education was seen as the key to building a new democratic society. What were the immediate educational needs in those temporary learning environments? How were the educational priorities implemented spatially and creatively? And what was everyday life like for the people who lived there?
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Fruit d'une expérience internationale orginale qui réunit étudiants, professeurs et experts en architecture de paysage, en architecture, en urbanisme et en études touristiques, ce livre raconte le travail d'expérimentation sur la réhabilitation paysagère des carrières de Mahdia. Misant sur l'apport créatif d'un arrimage culturel entre le Maghreb, le Moyen-Orient, l'Europe(...)
Architecture since 1900, Africa
September 2007, Montréal
Workshop Tunisie: invention paysagère des carrières de Mahdia
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Fruit d'une expérience internationale orginale qui réunit étudiants, professeurs et experts en architecture de paysage, en architecture, en urbanisme et en études touristiques, ce livre raconte le travail d'expérimentation sur la réhabilitation paysagère des carrières de Mahdia. Misant sur l'apport créatif d'un arrimage culturel entre le Maghreb, le Moyen-Orient, l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord, le workshop ravive les natures bien singulières des carrières et de leurs contextes. Et surtout, il expose un ensemble d'intentions en vues de leur mise en valeur et de leur développement.
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized,(...)
Architecture since 1900, Africa
June 2008, Rotterdam
Douala in Translation: a view of the city and its creative transformative potentials
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With nearly three million inhabitants, Cameroon's most populous city, Douala, is a multicultural hub strongly tied to its European colonial past. The arts and culture organization Doual'art has attracted international workers to Douala since 1991, and this small-format book collects their essays and stories, chronicling perspectives on Douala, both real and fictionalized, with 20 entries and hundreds of full-color photos.
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