Concrete City

‘Armelle Choplin’s Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanisation by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West Africa. From post-independence high modernist ambitions to building the opportunities to make a living, the emerging transnational corridor along the West African coast provides a starting point for insights which will expand and inform understanding of both established and newly emerging urbanisation processes in many different contexts.’
Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK