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In <i>Monrovia Modern</i> 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 cha
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- Author
- Danny Hoffman
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822358848
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Architecture, History
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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