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

Conference Author
Documenta (Exhibition) (11th : 2002 : Lagos, Nigeria)
Additional Titles
Documenta 11, Platform 4
Published
Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, [2002]
New York : Distribution in the USA D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers
Copyright Date
©2002
Physical Description
454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Enwezor, Okwui

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
377579090X
9783775790901
Note
"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
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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