Walls of Algiers
Subtitle: narratives of the city through text and image
By: edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak.
Contributors: Çelik, Zeynep.; Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann.; Terpak, Frances, 1948-; Getty Research Institute.
Edition: 1st.
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780295988689
Subjects: Architecture and society -- Algeria -- Algiers -- Congresses; Algiers (Algeria) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. --
Notes: Issued in connection with the workshop held May 2004, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Peoples. Exoticism, erasures, and absence: the peopling of Algiers, c. 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith; title: Medina and modernity: the emergence of Muslim civil society in Algiers between the two World Wars / Omar Carlier; title: II. Images. The promise and power of new technologies: nineteenth-century Algiers / Frances Terpak; title: The houses of Algiers in French colonial discourse / Zeynep Çelik; title: The invisible prison: representing Algiers on film / Eric Breitbart; title: III. Places. Masking and unmasking the historic quarters of Algiers: the reassessment of an archive / Isabelle Grangaud; title: Historic intersections: the center of Algiers / Zeynep Çelik; title: Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin.