Waterhouses : landscapes, housing, and the making of modern Lagos / Mark Duerksen.
2024
HT384.N52 L343 2024
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Title
Waterhouses : landscapes, housing, and the making of modern Lagos / Mark Duerksen.
ISBN
9780896805156 electronic book
0896805158 electronic book
9780896803312 hardcover
9780896803329 paperback
0896805158 electronic book
9780896803312 hardcover
9780896803329 paperback
Published
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 301 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps.
Call Number
HT384.N52 L343 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
966.9/1
Summary
"How did Lagos, Nigeria, grow from a tiny island kingdom to a megalopolis famous for its frenetic and congested form of coastal urbanism? This first-of-its-kind history provides a comprehensive narrative for understanding one of Africa's largest cities-its buoyant vibrancy and its two-headed problem of housing shortages and rising seas-today"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2024).
Series
Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 99.
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Table of Contents
Èkó: Mapping What a House is in Lagos
Bar: Houses as Gateways to Status, Lagos Colony
Canal: Trenches in Land, Labor, and Sanitation Struggles, Imperial Lagos
Swamp: Foci in Land, Labor, and Sanitation Struggles, Interwar Years
Lagoon: Hidden Depths Across Independence
Atlantic: Gatekeepers of Wealth and Power, the Oil Years
Flooding: Barometers of Human Security in a Fractured Global Landscape
Bar: Houses as Gateways to Status, Lagos Colony
Canal: Trenches in Land, Labor, and Sanitation Struggles, Imperial Lagos
Swamp: Foci in Land, Labor, and Sanitation Struggles, Interwar Years
Lagoon: Hidden Depths Across Independence
Atlantic: Gatekeepers of Wealth and Power, the Oil Years
Flooding: Barometers of Human Security in a Fractured Global Landscape