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Monrovia Modern - Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia (Paperback)
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Monrovia Modern - Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia (Paperback)
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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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