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African Cities In Crisis
Author | : Richard E. Stren |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429693021 |
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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
Author | : Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa |
Publsiher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9171064656 |
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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
Author | : Addamms Mututa |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2021-10-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000462203 |
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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 Urban Challenge in Africa
Author | : Carole Rakodi |
Publsiher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047128767 |
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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.
The African City
Author | : Bill Freund |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139459556 |
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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 West African City
Author | : Jérôme Chenal |
Publsiher | : EPFL Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415750219 |
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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.
Africa in an Era of Crisis
Author | : Kofi Buenor Hadjor |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 0865431507 |
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Africa in Crisis
Author | : Lloyd Timberlake |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781134157174 |
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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.