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City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and DecayLuanda: Running on the Wrong Track Towards Global Acceptance

City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay: Luanda: Running on the Wrong Track Towards Global... [Globalization has profound consequences, mapping unstably over the injustices of colonization. Boniswa Vaz Contreiras probes the unstable and unfortunate dialogues between colonization and globalization as it manifests on Luanda, the capital of Angola. The desire to ‘be modern’ results in the imposition of architecture and the destruction of indigenous buildings and environment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and DecayLuanda: Running on the Wrong Track Towards Global Acceptance

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series (volume 108)
Editors: Brabazon, Tara
Vaz Contreiras, Boniswa
City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay — Aug 3, 2013
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
ISBN
978-94-007-7234-2
Pages
125 –131
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9_10
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Abstract

[Globalization has profound consequences, mapping unstably over the injustices of colonization. Boniswa Vaz Contreiras probes the unstable and unfortunate dialogues between colonization and globalization as it manifests on Luanda, the capital of Angola. The desire to ‘be modern’ results in the imposition of architecture and the destruction of indigenous buildings and environment.]

Published: Aug 3, 2013

Keywords: Human Development Report; Colonial Past; Storm Water Drainage; Colonial Heritage; City Imaging

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