Cities in contemporary Africa /
Cities in contemporary Africa /
edited by Martin J. Murray and Garth A. Myers.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- xiv, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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 -- Johannesburg fortified [photo essay] / 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 -- Luanda, Angola [photo essay] / 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.
1403970351 (alk. paper) 9781403970350 (alk. paper)
2006045227
Cities and towns--Africa.
City and town life--Africa.
Urban policy--Africa.
City planning--Africa.
Urbanization--Africa.
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Africa--Geography.
Africa--History, Local.
HT148.A2 / C55 2007
307.76096
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 -- Johannesburg fortified [photo essay] / 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 -- Luanda, Angola [photo essay] / 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.
1403970351 (alk. paper) 9781403970350 (alk. paper)
2006045227
Cities and towns--Africa.
City and town life--Africa.
Urban policy--Africa.
City planning--Africa.
Urbanization--Africa.
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
Africa--Economic conditions--1960-
Africa--Geography.
Africa--History, Local.
HT148.A2 / C55 2007
307.76096