Living The City In Africa
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Living The City In Africa
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Author : Brigit Obrist
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2013
Living The City In Africa written by Brigit Obrist and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Social Science categories.
Research on cities worldwide still takes its cue from cities in Europe and the US, which are seen as the standard model. However, cities in the global South are undergoing a much more rapid transformation, including multiple interlinked transitions, with Africa featuring the highest urbanization rates world-wide. Scholars therefore call for a new approach to urban studies which examines cities from a more global comparative perspective. This book discusses the new approach, which pays added attention to the role that societal creativity plays in processes of urbanization, instead of concentrating exclusively on expert-driven planning and intervention. Especially in fast-growing cities with weaker institutional capacity for interventions, the interplay between intervention and invention, between expert and societal agency, becomes more tangible and all the more significant. (Series: Swiss African Studies / Schweizerische Afrikastudien / Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 10)
For The City Yet To Come
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Author : Abdou Maliqalim Simone
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-07
For The City Yet To Come written by Abdou Maliqalim Simone and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-07 with Political Science categories.
DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div
Living For The City
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Author : Miles Larmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-20
Living For The City written by Miles Larmer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-20 with History categories.
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society - stable, superstitious and agricultural - to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Cities And Suburbs
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Author : Margaret Peil
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 1981
Cities And Suburbs written by Margaret Peil and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
Associational Life In African Cities
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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.
Cities In Contemporary Africa
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Author : M. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-01-08
Cities In Contemporary Africa written by M. Murray and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-08 with Political Science categories.
This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.
The African City
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Author : Bill Freund
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-05
The African City written by Bill Freund and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-05 with History categories.
This book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan Africa. Apart from factual information and rich description material culled from many sources, it looks at many issues from why urban life emerged in the first place to how present-day African cities cope in difficult times. Instead of seeing towns and cities as somehow extraneous to the real Africa, it views them as an inherent part of developing Africa, indigenous, colonial, and post-colonial and emphasizes the extent to which the future of African society and African culture will likely be played out mostly in cities. The book is written to appeal to students of history but equally to geographers, planners, sociologists and development specialists interested in urban problems.
The Social Infrastructure Of City Life In Contemporary Africa
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Author : AbdouMaliq Simone
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2012-02
The Social Infrastructure Of City Life In Contemporary Africa written by AbdouMaliq Simone 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 2012-02 with Social Science categories.
The growth of cities is one of the most significant aspects of the contemporary transformation of African societies. Cities in Africa are the sites of major political, economic and social innovation, and thus play a critical role in national politics, domestic economic growth and social development. They are also key platforms for interaction with the wider world and mediate between global and national contexts. Cities are variously positioned in global flows of resources, goods and ideas, and are shaped by varied historical trajectories and local cultures. The result is a great diversity of urban societies across the continent. Cities in Africa are not only growing rapidly but are also undergoing deep political, economic and social transformation. They are changing in ways that defy usual notions of urbanism. In their dazzling complexity, they challenge most theories of the urban. African cities represent major challenges as well as opportunities. Both need to be understood and addressed if a sustainable urban future is to be achieved on the continent. The Urban Cluster of the Nordic Africa Institute, through its research, seeks to contribute to an understanding of processes of urban change in Africa. This discussion paper by Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, commissioned by the Urban Cluster, is a valuable contribution to shaping the research agenda on urban Africa.
Trading Places
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Author : Mark Napier
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2013-10-16
Trading Places written by Mark Napier and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society's margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal ways in which market access is structured. They make the case for more equal access to urban land markets, not only for ethical reasons, but because it makes economic sense for growing cities and towns. If we are to have any chance of understanding and intervening in predominantly poor and very unequal African cities, we need to see land and markets differently. New migrants to the city and communities living in slums are as much a part of the real estate market as anyone else; they're just not registered or officially recognised. Trading Places highlights the land practices of those living on the city's margins, and explores the nature and character of their participation in the urban land market. It details how the urban poor access, hold and trade land in the city, and how local practices shape the city, and reconfigures how we understand land markets in rapidly urbanising contexts. Rather than developing new policies which aim to supply land and housing formally but with little effect on the scale of the need, it advocates an alternative approach which recognises the local practices that already exist in land access and management. In this way, the agency of the poor is strengthened, and households and communities are better able to integrate into urban economies.
African City Life
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Author : Peter Marris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
African City Life written by Peter Marris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Africa categories.