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AB -  architectonic sophistication achieved in these late sixteenth-century projects. james g. cooper Pennsylvania State University Note 1. Andrew Morrogh, "The Palace of the Roman People: Michelangelo at the Palazzo dei Conservatori," Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 29 (1994), 131, 134, 145, 157­61, figs. 34, 35. Ruby Ofori and Edward Scott, directors City of Dreams Eye Level Productions, Washington, D.C., 2005, DVD, 52 min., $24.95, www.amazon.com Ruby Ofori and Edward Scott's 2005 film, City of Dreams, treats modern architecture built during the colonization of Eritrea, Italy's "first-born colony" in northeast Africa. In a 1938 book describing public works in the Italian colonies, Davide Fossa contends that Asmara, the capital, was simply a trading center before 1935 and worthy of mention only for its parallels with the Italian campagna.1 The filmmakers also begin their history of Asmara soon after 1935, the year in which the largest deployment of Italian army personnel moved through the country en route to intense subterfuge and later occupation in Ethiopia. City of Dreams follows this problematic account while engaging the contentious terrain of Italian colonialism, modern architecture and urbanism, and race. Almost 140 architects built Asmara during Italian colonial rule, which commenced in 1889 and ended 
TI - City of Dreams
JF - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
DO - 10.1525/jsah.2007.66.4.550
DA - 2007-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/city-of-dreams-aRlJzZBQbS
SP - 550
VL - 66
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -