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Cities in contemporary Africa

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cities in contemporary Africaedited by Martin J. Murray and Garth A. Myers.
other author:	Myers, Garth Andrew.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillian,2007.
Description:	xiv, 318 p. :ill., maps
Subject:	Cities and townsAfrica.
Subject:	AfricaExhibitions.Antiquities
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230603349

Cities in contemporary Africa
Cities in contemporary Africa[electronic resource] /edited by Martin J. Murray and Garth A. Myers. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillian,2007. - xiv, 318 p. :ill., maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa--Garth Myers and Martin Murray * Section I: Culture, Imagination, Place, and Space * Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined--Dominique Malaquais * Internal Migration and the Escalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria--Daniel J. Smith * Re(figuring) the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts--JoyceNyairo * Photographic Essay: Johannesburg Fortified--Martin J. Murray & Juanita Malan (photography) * Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis--Basile Ndjio * Section II: Political Economy, Work, and Livelihoods * Economic Globalization from Below: Transnational Refugee TradeNetworks in Nairobi--Elizabeth 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 Post-War Captial City--M. Anne Pitcher (withAubrey Graham) * Photographic Essay II: Luanda, Angola--Aubrey Graham * Human Capital, Embedded Resourcesand Employment for Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe--Miriam Grant * Gender Relations, Bread Winning and Family Life in Kinshasa--Guillaume Iyenda and David Simon * Section III: UrbanPlanning, Administration and Governance * 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: UrbanPlanning, Urban Poverty, and Operation Murambatsvina--Deborah Potts * Social Control and Social Welfare under Neoliberalism in South AfricanCities: Contradictions in Free Basic Water Services--Greg Ruiters.

This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises thatcharacterize 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 ofa 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-levelundergraduate students, these essays, taken as a whole, provide an understanding of whatis happening in African cities today, and why.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230603349

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230603349doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

473883
Cities and towns
--Africa.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

390751
Africa
--Antiquities--Exhibitions.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT148.A2 / C55 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76096

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505 0 $a Douala/Johannesburg/New York: cityscapes imagined / Dominique Malaquais -- Internal migrationand 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] / MartinJ. 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-liberalismin South African cities: contradictions in free basic water services / Greg Ruiters.
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