Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Description:

xiv, 318 pages : illustrations, charts, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Photographic essay 1: Johannesburg fortified / 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 -- Photographic essay 2: Luanda, Angola / 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.
Library copy: former shelfmark: 30+711.13(6).

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

1403970351 (alk. paper)
9781403970350 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns Africa.
City and town life Africa.
Urban policy Africa.
City planning Africa.
Urbanization Africa.
Villes Afrique.
Vie urbaine Afrique.
Politique urbaine Afrique.
Urbanisation Afrique.
Développement urbain.
Urbanisme.
Villes.
Politique urbaine.
Aspects socio-économiques.
Modes de vie.
Cities and towns
City and town life
City planning
Economic history
Geography
Social conditions
Urban policy
Urbanization
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Verstädterung
Africa Social conditions 1960-
Africa Economic conditions 1960-
Africa Geography.
Africa History, Local.
Afrique Conditions sociales 1960-
Afrique Conditions économiques 1960-
Afrique Géographie.
Afrique Histoire locale.
Afrique subsaharienne.
Africa
Afrika

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Local history

Added entries:

Murray, Martin J.
Myers, Garth Andrew.
Antoni Folkers and Belinda van Buiten Library, donor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315910
Call No.: 315910
Copy: 1
Status: Available