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Upgrading Ile-Ife's vernacular architecture heritage
2009
Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XI
unpublished
The importance of vernacular architecture is increasingly being acknowledged worldwide. This is particularly true of developing economies where the globalization process is progressively being questioned, and where appropriateness of approaches and technologies has become increasingly topical. Ile-Ife, a city in south-western Nigeria, has long caught the world's attention notably for its superlatively naturalistic bronze and terracotta heads, and for its cardinality in ethnological
doi:10.2495/str090061
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