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Title
Emergent Protozones: A Genealogy of Zoning Architectures in Calabar, Nigeria |
Full text
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9833h0kt |
Date
2015 |
Author(s)
Godlewski, Joseph Michael |
Contributor(s)
AlSayyad, Nezar |
Abstract
This dissertation is a historical investigation of the urban politics and mythic spaces produced in southeastern Nigeria, particularly in the port city of Old Calabar. As a city with a distinctive, and what some call 'decentralized' and fragmented urban geography, this project draws connections between contemporary zoning strategies and these historical socio-spatial constructs, or 'protozones'. These protozones, which were loosely tied together by secretive juridical systems and cultural codes, can be seen as a precursors and potential anticipatory diagrams for the splintering forms of urbanism emerging globally today. Borrowing the concept of 'paradigmatic spaces', this dissertation is organized around a series of spatial designations, or diagrams of spatial relationships that were exemplary during a given time period in Old Calabar's urban history. This dissertation employs four spaces as representative of particular socio-historical relationships in Old Calabar'the compound, the masquerade, the offshore, and the zone. The historical imbrication of these four models combined with a flexible application of their spatio-temporal boundaries, provide a useful matrix for understanding the architectural and urban history of Old Calabar and challenging the novelty attributed to contemporary neoliberal free trade zones. The dissertation provides a productive case study for theorizing architecture and urbanism from the historicized periphery. |
Subject(s)
Architecture; Urban planning; African history; African urbanism; architecture; Calabar; Efik; Nigeria; zoning |
Language
en |
Publisher
eScholarship, University of California |
Type of publication
etd |
Rights
public |
Identifier
qt9833h0kt |
Repository
Berkeley - University of California
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