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Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city :home spaces and house cultures /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city :by Paul Jenkins.
Reminder of title:	home spaces and house cultures /
Author:	Jenkins, Paul,
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	"[D]raws on a recent three year (2009-12) international and inter-disciplinary research program 'Home Space in the African City'"--Acknowledgements.
Subject:	Community development, UrbanMozambique
Subject:	Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137380173
ISBN:	1137380179 (electronic bk.)

Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city :home spaces and house cultures /
Jenkins, Paul,1953-

Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city :home spaces and house cultures /by Paul Jenkins. - 1 online resource.

"[D]raws on a recent three year (2009-12) international and inter-disciplinary research program 'Home Space in the African City'"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references.

The aims and objectives of the book -- The intellectual approach of the book -- Contextualization at macro-level -- Contextualizing at meso-level -- Contextualizing at micro-level -- Life stories -- Integrated findings -- Key issues arising -- Queries and proposals.

Sub-Saharan Africa is often considered to be the last global macro-region in the world to go through a rapid urbanization process, leading to the majority of the population living in cities and towns. Despite common misunderstandings to the contrary, the urbanization process in this region has historic roots, and although this has accelerated in the post-colonial era, it continues to display distinctive spaces and forms due to particular political, economic, social, and cultural contexts. This book explores the features of recent urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa through a remarkably detailed and wide-ranging case study of Mozambique's capital city Maputo, including longitudinal physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes. The findings of this study reflect not only the weakness of state capacity in the region in urban intervention, but also the continued basis for urban development activity by residents, in social and economic terms as well as the importance of culturally constructed identities and social relations. Maputo and cities like it are very much a collective "urban" in the making - and the final form that they take remains to be seen in terms of urbanism and urbanity.

ISBN: 1137380179 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

687201
Community development, Urban
--MozambiqueSubjects--Geographical Terms:

524162
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT384.M85 / J46 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 307.1416/096791

Urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in an African city :home spaces and house cultures /
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