Cities in contemporary Africa / edited by Martin Murray and Garth Myers.

This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises that characterize contemporary African cities. It wrestles with important questions concerning how large numbers of people without regular work nevertheless find way...

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Other Authors: Murray, Martin J., Myers, Garth Andrew
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Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a Douala/Johannesburg/New York: cityscapes imagined / Dominique Malaquais -- Internal migration and the escalation of ethnic and religious violence in urban Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith -- (Re)configuring the city: the mapping of places and people in contemporary Kenyan popular song texts / Joyce Nyairo -- Johannesburg fortified [photo essay] / Martin J. Murray (text) ; Juanita Malan (photography) -- Douala: inventing life in an African necropolis / Basile Ndjio -- Economic globalization from below: transitional refugee trade networks in Nairobi / Elizabeth H. 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 postwar, capital city / M. Anne Pitcher with Aubrey Graham -- Luanda, Angola [photo essay] / Aubrey Graham (photography) ; M. Anne Pitcher (text) -- Human capital, embedded resources, and employment for youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Gender relations, breadwinning, and family life in Kinshasa / Guillaume Iyenda and David Simon -- 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 neo-liberalism in South African cities: contradictions in free basic water services / Greg Ruiters. 
520 |a This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises that characterize contemporary African cities. It wrestles with important questions concerning how large numbers of people without regular work nevertheless find ways to survive and even prosper. It balances investigations of particular cities in sub-Saharan Africa with considerations of a diversity of topics, themes and multi-city comparisons, including themes in: culture, imagination, place and space; political economy and work livelihoods; and urban planning and governance. The collection is both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Aimed at mid-level undergraduate students, these essays, taken as a whole, provide an understanding of what is happening in African cities today, and why. 
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650 0 |a City and town life  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a Urban policy  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a City planning  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a Urbanization  |z Africa. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Social conditions  |y 1960- 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Economic conditions  |y 1960- 
651 0 |a Africa  |x Geography. 
651 0 |a Africa  |x History, Local. 
650 7 |a Développement urbain.  |2 eclas 
650 7 |a Urbanisme.  |2 eclas 
650 7 |a Villes.  |2 eclas 
650 7 |a Politique urbaine.  |2 eclas 
650 7 |a Aspects socio-économiques.  |2 eclas 
650 7 |a Modes de vie.  |2 eclas 
651 7 |a Afrique subsaharienne.  |2 eclas 
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650 7 |a City and town life  |2 fast 
650 7 |a City planning  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Economic history  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Geography  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Social conditions  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Urban policy  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Urbanization  |2 fast 
651 7 |a Africa  |2 fast  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3 
650 7 |a Stadt  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Stadtplanung  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Verstädterung  |2 gnd 
651 7 |a Afrika  |2 gnd 
648 7 |a Since 1960  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Local history  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Aufsatzsammlung.  |2 swd 
700 1 |a Murray, Martin J. 
700 1 |a Myers, Garth Andrew. 
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776 0 8 |i Print version:  |t Cities in contemporary Africa.  |d New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2006  |w (DLC) 2006045227 
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