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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Agadir
    sub title: building the modern Afropolis
  name:
    name part: Avermaete, Tom
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zaugg, Maxime
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 399 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of its population. The world was shocked, and very quickly large amounts of international aid arrived. Following an emotional speech by King Mohammed V, the reconstruction of Agadir also turned into an undertaking of national and international solidarity. A new and unprecedented process of urban construction was developed that allowed many architects, national and international, to simultaneously design the new city. The result of this joint effort was astounding. In a very short time, the new Agadir rose from the ashes. The best Moroccan and international architects experimented with novel housing typologies, which mediated between ultramodern and vernacular ways of dwelling, complemented by innovative public structures, such as schools, dispensaries and cinemas. All of these combined into an original urban reality, a modern Afropolis. This book for the first time thoroughly explores the forgotten tale of Agadir's reconstruction. It features previously unpublished archival documents and striking period photographs, as well as new plans and contemporary images by London-based photographer and academic David Grandorge, alongside scholarly essays by architects and architecture historians. A three-part interview with Lahsen Roussafi, who witnessed the 1960 earthquake as a student, rounds out this tantalizing narration of the international architectural adventure of rebuilding Agadir as the modern Afropolis.
  note: [edited by] Tom Avermaete, Maxime Zaugg.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-mr---
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: Morocco
    geographic: Agadir
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Agadir (Morocco)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Agadir (Morocco)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Africa / General
  classification: NA1590.2.A33 A94 2022
  classification: 720.96466
  identifier: 9783038602767
  identifier: 3038602760
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210811
    record change date: 20230105194615.2
    record identifier: in00004633094