Screen LibraryCities in Contemporary Africa
A study of ubanization of Africa.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230603349 |
| Summary: |
A study of ubanization of Africa. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2007. |
| Carrier Form: | 332 p. |
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9781403970350 9780230603349 : 0230603343 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa - Garth Myers and Martin Murray * Section I: Culture, Imagination, Place, and Space * Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined - Dominique Malaquais * Internal Migration and the Escalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria - Daniel J. Smith * Re(figuring) the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts - Joyce Nyairo * Photographic Essay: Johannesburg Fortified - Martin J. Murray & Juanita Malan (photography) * Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis - Basile Ndjio * Section II: Political Economy, Work, and Livelihoods * Economic Globalization from Below: Transnational Refugee Trade Networks in Nairobi - Elizabeth Campbell * Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-owned Shopping Malls - Darlene Miller * Cars Are Killing Luanda: Cronyism, Consumerism, and Other Assaults on Angola's Post-War Captial City - M. Anne Pitcher (with Aubrey Graham) * Photographic Essay II: Luanda, Angola - Aubrey Graham * Human Capital, Embedded Resources and Employment for Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Miriam Grant * Gender Relations, Bread Winning and Family Life in Kinshasa - Guillaume Iyenda and David Simon * Section III: Urban Planning, Administration and Governance * South African Urbanism: Between the Modern and the Refugee Camp - AbdouMaliq Simone * Planning, Anti-Planning and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos - Matthew Gandy * City Life in Zimbabwe at a Time of Fear and Loathing: Urban Planning, Urban Poverty, and Operation Murambatsvina - Deborah Potts * Social Control and Social Welfare under Neoliberalism in South African Cities: Contradictions in Free Basic Water Services - Greg Ruiters. |