| Edition |
Compact edition. |
| Description |
407 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 7 volumes in larger format as: African metropolitan architecture. 2011. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This book presents fifty-three African cities that illustrate the continent's diverse architecture and features over 700 color photographs. |
| Contents |
The Maghreb. Algiers/Algeria ; Rabat/Morocco ; Tripoli/Libya ; Tunis/Tunisia -- Desert. Cairo/Egypt ; Djibouti/Djibouti ; Khartoum/Sudan ; Nouakchott/Mauritania -- The Sahel. Bamako/Mali ; N'djamena/Chad ; Niamey/Niger ; Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso -- Forest. Abidjan/Côte d'Ivoire ; Accra/Ghana ; Bangui/Central African Republic ; Banjul/the Gambia ; Bissau/Guinea-Bissau ; Brazzaville/Republic of Congo ; Conakry/Guinea ; Cotonou/Benin ; Dar es Salaam/Tanzania ; Freetown/Sierra Leone ; Juba/South Sudan ; Kampala/Uganda ; Kinshasa / Democratic Republic of Congo ; Libreville/Gabon ; Lilongwe/Malawi ; Lomé/Togo ; Luanda/Angola ; Malabo/Equatorial Guinea ; Maputo/Mozambique ; Monrovia/Liberia ; Moroni/Comoros ; Port Luis/Mauritius ; Praia/Cape Verde ; São Tomé/São Tomé and Príncipe ; Victoria/Seychelles ; Yaoundé/Cameroon -- Savanna & grassland. Abuja/Nigeria ; Antananarivo/Madagascar ; Dakar/Senegal ; Gaborone/Botswana ; Mogadishu/Somalia ; Pretoria/South Africa -- Mountain and highveld. Addis Ababa/Ethiopia ; Asmara/Eritrea ; Bujumbura/Burundi ; Harare/Zimbabwe ; Kigali/Rwanda ; Lusaka/Zambia ; Maseru/Lesotho ; Mbabane/Swaziland ; Nairobi/Kenya ; Windhoek/Namibia -- Essays. African metropolitan architecture / David Adijaye ; Cities, connections, and circulations in Africa / Garth Myers & Jenny Robinson ; Friend, enemy, neighbour, stranger / Okwui Enwezor ; A tale of three highland cites / Naigzy Gebremedhin ; The African urban past / Suzanne Preston Blier ; Imagined topographies / Nana Oforiatta Ayim. |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Africa.
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Cities and towns -- Africa.
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Architecture -- Africa -- Pictorial works.
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Cities and towns -- Africa -- Pictorial works.
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Adjaye, David, 1966- -- Travel -- Africa.
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Adjaye, David, 1966- (OCoLC)fst01615641
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Cities and towns. (OCoLC)fst00861748
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Architecture. (OCoLC)fst00813346
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
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| Added Author |
Allison, Peter, 1944- editor.
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| Added Title |
African metropolitan architecture
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| ISBN |
0500343160 |
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9780500343166 |
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