Hoffman Danny Hoffman

Monrovia Modern (eBook, PDF)

Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373087
• Artikelnr.: 54783796

Autorenporträt

Danny Hoffman

Inhaltsangabe

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