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26 janvier 2018
- doi: 10.4000/abe.11089
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globalización ciudad portuaria Globalisierung Hafenstadt globalizzazione città portuale mondialisation ville portuaire globalization port citySujets proches
Global cities Internationalization Globalisation Western architecture (Western countries) Building design Construction Buildings--Design and construction Architecture, Western (Western countries) Emporia (Port cities) Cities and towns, Port City-ports Port townsCiter ce document
Sarah Longair, « Prita Meier, Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere », ABE Journal, ID : 10.4000/abe.11089
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Prita Meier’s Swahili Port Cities: the Architecture of Elsewhere is a highly original and important contribution to scholarship on East Africa, and more widely for scholars interested in complicating how we understand the formation of global cities and border zone societies. It is not a conventional architectural history, yet it places buildings, in particular the coral and lime stone constructions found on the Swahili coast, at its heart. Meier uses the “materiality of city life” to offer “a...