Description Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the sub rbios of Maputo (Louren o Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present.
Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical slums, these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's highest aspirations.
At first people built in reeds.
Then they built in wood and zinc panels.
And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in .
Ohio University Press Age of concrete: housing and the shape of aspiration in the capital of mozambique/david morton
