Walls of Algiers : narratives of the city through text and image

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Walls of Algiers : narratives of the city through text and image

Title remainder

narratives of the city through text and image

Statement of responsibility

edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak

Contributor

• Terpak, Frances, 1948-
• Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann
• Çelik, Zeynep

Editor

• Çelik, Zeynep
• Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann
• Terpak, Frances, 1948-

Subject

• Algiers (Algeria) -- Congresses
• Architecture and society -- Algeria | Algiers -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. --

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Publisher description

Dewey number

307.7609653

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography