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Monrovia modern : urban form and political imagination in Liberia by Danny Hoffman is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

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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