Fr. 195.60

Eric Ross, Eric S. Ross

Sufi City - Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba

English · Hardback

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Description

A book about contemporary urban design, a metaphysical worldview and a cultural process that transcends the pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial divides.

List of contents

Archetypes: Sufi Phenomenology and the Semiosis of Landscape
Urban Design: The Spatial Configuration of a Spiritual Project
Marabout Republics Then and Now: Autonomous Muslim Towns in Senegal
The Pénc: Trees and Urban Design in West Africa

About the author

Eric S. Ross

Product details

Authors	Eric Ross, Eric S. Ross
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.11.2006

EAN	9781580462174
ISBN	978-1-58046-217-4
No. of pages	308
Dimensions	161 mm x 233 mm x 26 mm
Weight	653 g
Series	Rochester Studies in African H
Subjects	Fiction > Narrative literature Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

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