Assessment of African Vernacular Built Environment and Power: The Case of the Walled City of Zaria, Nigeria
Abdulsalam Ibrahim Shema,
Marko Kiessel,
Cemil Atakara
Abstract:Numerous studies proposed models for assessing architecture and power such as Dovey’s Framing places: Mediating power in built form and Njoh’s Forms of power over that analyse the built environment in relation to various forms of power. However, those models deal mainly with the western and/or modern built environment. There is a lack of studies that specifically deal with the vernacular built environment of African societies. This study assesses how power, as a socially constructed discourse, influences and i… Show more
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