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Lucy M. Maulsby, Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan (1922–1943), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, 272 pages, 65 illustrations, ISBN 978-1442646254. David Rifkind, The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist Italy, Venice: Marsilio, 2012, 304 pages, 138 illustrations, ISBN: 978-8831713481. Diane Ghirardo, Italy: Modern Architectures in History, London: Reaktion Books, 2013, 256 pages, 203 illustrations, ISBN 978-1861898647. Paolo Nicoloso, Architetture per un'identità italiana: Progetti e opere per fare gli italiani fascisti, Udine: Gaspari, 2012, 253 pages with maps and illustrations, ISBN 978-8875412586.

The core of Asmara, Italy's former colonial capital in Eritrea, is widely known as a unique repository of 1930s Italian architecture. In addition, its Italian food and other traces of the colonial era lend it the semblance, to foreign eyes, of a still-colonial city. This article describes this apparent colonial inertia with respect to Eritrean citizens' and government's interests in sustaining the illusion, and argues that they use their past as Italian colonial subjects – specifically, their postcolonial cultural capital - to fortify their sense of separateness from Ethiopians, and celebrate their independence from their African neighbor.

(...) Housefield, James E.: Orientalism as irony in Gérard de Nerval's "Voyage en Orient". - S. 10-24. Miller, Susan Gilson: Watering the garden of Tangier. Colonial contestations in a Moroccan city. - S. 25-50. Davies, Diana K. ; Frappier, Denys: The social context of working equines in the urban Middle East. The example of Fez Medina. - S. 51-68. Sari, Djilali: The role of the medinas in the reconstruction of Algerian culture and identity. - S. 69-80. Slyomovics, Susan: Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen. - S. 81-96. McGuinness, Justin: Neighbourhood notes. Texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis. - S. 97-120. Fuller, Mia: Preservation and self-absorption. Italian colonisation and the walled city of Tripoli. - S. 121-154