Book Review
BOOK
Africa Drawn: One Hundred Cities
Africa is certainly not only a continent of
small villages in the jungle and savannah. The
urbanisation of the continent is advancing
rapidly, while African cities and
metropolitan regions
are among the fastest
growing in the world.
Africa Drawn presents
one hundred of the most
connected and important
cities of the continent. The
approach of this book is an
effort to map the urban form
and structure of African cities,
and to describe and illustrate
how these different places were
formed.
Therefore, it presents the historic
character of African locations as a
valuable resource for imagining the
future of the continent’s cities. A visual
feast of 300 images and masterfully drawn
plans illustrate contemporary and historical
place-making actions in Africa.
The result is a fascinating documentation of
African urban space and at the same time
a convincing analysis of its structure and
morphology. The drawings are accompanied by
introductory texts and, for the first time, render
possible a comparison of diversity of u
 rban form
on the continent. AD
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AUTHORS: Gary White,
Marguerite Pienaar, Bouwer
Serfontein
HARDCOVER: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 3869224231
ISBN-13: 978-3869224237
PUBLISHERS: DOM
Publishers
RELEASED: September 1,
2015
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