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Author Morton, David, 1975- author.

Title Age of concrete : housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of Mozambique / David Morton
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : illustrations
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Contents The spaces of Lourenc¸o Marques -- The politics of visibility: the "City of Reeds" debate, 1962/65 -- The politics of proximity: clandestine masonry house construction in the subúrbios, c. 1960/74 -- An immovable legacy: the nationalization of housing and its consequences, 1976/92 -- Planning in the subúrbios, 1977/92 -- Conclusion: multiple trajectories
Summary Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2019)
Subject Housing -- Mozambique -- Maputo -- History
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Economic history
Housing
Social conditions
SUBJECT Maputo (Mozambique) -- Economic conditions
Maputo (Mozambique) -- Social conditions
Subject Mozambique -- Maputo
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0821446754
9780821446751