Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique

by David Morton

Book Overview

Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the sub rbios of Maputo (Louren o Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical "slums," these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821423681
• ISBN13: 9780821423684
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"