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Monrovia Modern

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Monrovia Modern

By Danny Hoffman

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About the book

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...Show more

City and town planning: architectural aspects

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ISBN

9780822358848

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

Monrovia Modern

Format

Paperback

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