Alternative Urbanism: The Self-Organized Markets of Lagos

Alternative Urbanism: The Self-Organized Markets of Lagos presents an immersive experience of the activities of three specialist markets from Lagos, Nigeria. These markets operate as factories processing “waste” or “end-of-life” items from industrialised economies. They showcase the principle of circularity prevalent in African cities through iterative self-organized initiatives. These initiatives tend to be foreign to their host environments and not structured by the state. However, they coexist with, and in some cases re-appropriate these urban fabrics. As such, they speak to the realities enabling the African city to function in modernity.