Cities in Contemporary Africa

Name: Cities in Contemporary Africa
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ISBN: 9780230116641

ISBN-10: 0230116647

ISBN-13: 9780230116641

Edition: 2011

Authors: Martin J. Murray, Garth A. Myers

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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.#xA0; The collection is both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Aimed…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 6/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa




Culture, Imagination, Place, and Space


Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined



Internal Migration and the Escalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria



Re(figuring) the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts



Photographic Essay: Johannesburg Fortified



Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis




Political Economy, Work, and Livelihoods


Economic Globalization from Below: Transnational Refugee Trade Networks in Nairobi



Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-owned Shopping Malls



Cars Are Killing Luanda: Cronyism, Consumerism, and Other Assaults on Angola's Post-War Captial City



Photographic Essay II: Luanda, Angola



Human Capital, Embedded Resources and Employment for Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe



Gender Relations, Bread Winning and Family Life in Kinshasa




Urban Planning, Administration and Governance


South African Urbanism: Between the Modern and the Refugee Camp



Planning, Anti-Planning and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos



City Life in Zimbabwe at a Time of Fear and Loathing: Urban Planning, Urban Poverty, and Operation Murambatsvina



Social Control and Social Welfare under Neoliberalism in South African Cities: Contradictions in Free Basic Water Services