African Cities Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

Name: African Cities Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
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ISBN: 9781848135093

ISBN-10: 1848135092

ISBN-13: 9781848135093

Edition: 2011

Authors: Professor Garth Myers

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As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning. In this groundbreaking book, Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. It argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies.Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 4/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Figures and tables


Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Map


Introduction



What if the postmetropolis is Lusaka?



Postcolonial cities



(I)n(f)ormal cities



Governing Africa's cities



Wounded city



Cosmopolitan cities


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index