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- aggregation abstract "This article presents a series of particular sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dating from the colonial period. Each site is read like a palimpsest, of which the different physical and symbolic layers are dissected. Taken together, the series of sites illustrates a number of strategies of appropriation, transformation and negotiation of colonial built legacy that are indicative of both official policies of (re)use and informal practices of everyday survival acting on physical spaces in the challenging reality of contemporary RDC.".