Nnamdi Elleh: 2 books
by Nnamdi Elleh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela,...
Architecture and Politics in Nigeria
The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which...