Creative Cities in Africa: Critical Architecture and Urbanism
Noëleen Murray and Jonathan Cane, editors | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2648-7 $45.00 |
| ISBN: 978-0-7969-2671-5 $45.00 |
| 2024/240 pages Distributed for the HSRC Press
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DESCRIPTION
How have politicians, planners, and power brokers deployed—or not—notions of creativity across the history of African cities from the colonial era to the present? The contributors to Creative Cities in Africa address this question as they frame critical approaches to architecture and urbanism and explore new and alternative forms of writing, thinking, and making the city.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Noëleen Murray holds a Research Chair in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pretoria. Jonathan Cane is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York.
CONTENTS
- Introduction: What Do Creative Cities Create?—the Editors.
- Ville Fantôme: African Cities as Prolegomena—J. Cane.
- Johannesburg: The Nelson Mandela Bridge as a Sign of Urban Transformation—M. Sihlongonyane.
- Lubumbashi: An "Open Air Architectural Museum?" Shifting Narrations on the Architectural and Urban Landscapes of a (Post)colonial City in DR Congo—J. Lagae.
- Dakar: Scaffolding For Monuments to the African Renaissance—S. Josephy.
- Nairobi: Creative Empires of South African Design—N. Murray.
- Douala: Everydayness and Creativity Otherwise—L. March.
- Dalaba: Sol d'Exil—Â. Ferreira and J. Cane.
- Durban: Expressions of Sociocultural Identities in the Architecture of the Surat Hindu Association—S. Patel.
- Maputo: Monumentality and Architectural Discretion—D. Morton.
- Johannesburg: The Trinity Session and Empathic, Creative City-Making in Paterson Park—C. Rawhani.
"A jazz-like score of multiplicitous African cities is what this carefully arranged collage of a book offers."— Alexander Opper, University of Johannesburg