African Cities In Crisis
DOWNLOAD
Download African Cities In Crisis PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get African Cities In Crisis book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
African Cities In Crisis
DOWNLOAD
Author : Richard E. Stren
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-23
African Cities In Crisis written by Richard E. Stren and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with Political Science categories.
This book presents the results of the "African Urban Management" project designed to study comparatively governmental responses to the gap between the realities of official plans and perspectives and the mushrooming world of the urban poor in African cities.
Associational Life In African Cities
DOWNLOAD
Author : Arne Tostensen
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2001
Associational Life In African Cities written by Arne Tostensen and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
The book contains 17 chapters with material from 13 African countries, from Egypt to Swaziland and from Senegal to Kenya. Most of the authors are young African academics. The focus of the volume is the multitude of voluntary associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak or abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases, existing organizations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base. Some of these organizations are engaged in both day-to-day matters of urban management and more long-term urban development. Urban associations challenge the monopoly of local and central government institutions.
Crisis Urbanism And Postcolonial African Cities In Postmillennial Cinema
DOWNLOAD
Author : Addamms Mututa
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-10-09
Crisis Urbanism And Postcolonial African Cities In Postmillennial Cinema written by Addamms Mututa and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-09 with Science categories.
This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological or anthropological studies of cities. It argues that crisis has become a mainstay reality of African cities and thus occupies a central place in the way these cities may be theorized or imagined. The book considers crises of six African cities: nonentity in post-apartheid Johannesburg, laissez faire economies of Kinshasa, urban commons in Nairobi, hustlers in postwar Monrovia, latent revolt in Cairo, and cantonments in postwar Luanda, which offer useful insights on African cities today. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and media studies.
The West African City
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jérôme Chenal
language : en
Publisher: EPFL Press
Release Date : 2014-05-08
The West African City written by Jérôme Chenal and has been published by EPFL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-08 with Social Science categories.
Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis, macrocephali... The cities of west Africa are no longer ‘plannable’ – at least not using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory processes in city creation, it nonetheless seems crucial to return to city plans and models, to what cities convey, and how they are built. But to understand the city in all its depth and richness, we must also hit the streets. The West African City proposes a dual perspective. At the urban scale, it analyses historical trajectories, spatial development, and urban planning documents to highlight the major trends beyond the plans. At the second level – that of public space – the street is discussed as the city’s lifeblood. By innovating approaches and testing new methods, The West African City offers an unconventional look at Nouakchott, Dakar and Abidjan, the three study sites for this investigation. The city of today, in Africa or elsewhere, must re-examine its many social, economic, cultural, political, and spatial dimensions; for this, urban research has begun challenging its own methods. This book is also the companion of Chenal's MOOC African cities.
The Urban Challenge In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Carole Rakodi
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 1997
The Urban Challenge In Africa written by Carole Rakodi and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.
In this work, scholars examine the growth of the largest cities in Africa. It is revealed that the new phase of globalization has reinforced the continent's marginalization, impoverishment, indebtedness, and lack of policy autonomy, rather than leading to economic growth and diversification.
Africa In Crisis
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lloyd Timberlake
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Africa In Crisis written by Lloyd Timberlake and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Business & Economics categories.
The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa.
Cities Of Gold Townships Of Coal
DOWNLOAD
Author : Patrick Bond
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2000
Cities Of Gold Townships Of Coal written by Patrick Bond and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
After apartheid was dismantled, South Africa's townships anticipated a peace and development dividend. But as the ANC begins its second term in office (1999-2004), the cities have degenerated further into impoverished, polluted, under-serviced, zones of blight and despair. Indeed, in many respects, the townships were worse off than when the ANC took power. In this collection of essays, the author argues that the ANC's adoption of free-market economic and social policies is at the root of these problems and can be blamed for S Africa's uneven urban development.
Africa In An Era Of Crisis
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kofi Buenor Hadjor
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1990
Africa In An Era Of Crisis written by Kofi Buenor Hadjor and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Africa categories.
City Futures
DOWNLOAD
Author : Doctor Edgar Pieterse
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-04
City Futures written by Doctor Edgar Pieterse and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Political Science categories.
Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented. This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.
Feeding African Cities
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jane Guyer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Feeding African Cities written by Jane Guyer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1987, this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy, drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast, in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of 'specialist consumers'. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano, Yaoundé, Dar es Salaam and Harare.