TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Martin J.
AU  - Myers,Garth Andrew
TI  - Cities in contemporary Africa
SN  - 1403970351 (alk. paper)
AV  - HT148.A2 C55 2007
U1  - 307.76096 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Africa
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Urban policy
KW  - City planning
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1960-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Geography
KW  - History, Local
N1  - 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
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