Making An African City

Author : Jennifer Hart
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253069344

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In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.

Author : Joseph Forsyth Ingram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pietermaritzburg
ISBN : NYPL:33433082467246

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The Story of an African City by Joseph Forsyth Ingram Pdf

On the rise and progress of Maritzburg.

Author : Anthony O'Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135671358

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The African City by Anthony O'Connor Pdf

This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to individual cities. Much has been written about urban Africa, but nearly all relates to particular cities: this book provides a context for such studies. This review provides an essential foundation both for theoretical clarification of the processes of urbanization and for practical planning decisions. The topics covered range from rural-urban migration and national urban systems to the urban economy, housing , and the spatial structure of cities. The sharp contrasts between indigenous and colonial urban traditions are emphasized, but so also is the evidence for convergence today, as indigenization takes place in the colonial cities while Westernization proceeds ini those of indigenous origin. This book was first published in 1983.

Author : P. Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137380173

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Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City by P. Jenkins Pdf

Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.

Author : Kristin Mann
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253117083

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Slavery and the Birth of an African City by Kristin Mann Pdf

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the equator. Slavery and the Birth of an African City explores the reasons for Lagos's sudden rise to power. By linking the histories of international slave markets to those of the regional suppliers and slave traders, Kristin Mann shows how the African slave trade forever altered the destiny of the tiny kingdom of Lagos. This magisterial work uncovers the relationship between African slavery and the growth of one of Africa's most vibrant cities.

Author : Rogers Hansine
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643963437

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Reproduction in an African city today by Rogers Hansine Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is considered the last region in the world where women still give birth to presumably too many children. However, within large cities such as Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, the average number of children per woman varies greatly. What is extraordinary, as this book shows, is that childbearing is a social action. Parenting allows one to consider different action alternatives, or rather, opportunities to act. These actions are not the same for everyone in different contexts. The book highlights that macro level socio- demographic changes, namely intraurban reproductive disparities are brought up by micro level (individual) actions. Rogers J. M. Hansine is lecturer and researcher in the Geography department of the Eduardo Mondlane University in the city of Maputo, Mozambique.

Author : Daniel E. Agbiboa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351234207

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Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities by Daniel E. Agbiboa Pdf

This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised workforce. With attention to the question of what a micro-level analysis of the organisation and politics of informal public transport in urbanizing Africa might tell us about the precarious existence and agency of its informal workforce, it explores the political and socio-economic conditions of contemporary African cities, spanning from Nairobi and Dar es Salaam to Harare, Cape Town, Kinshasa and Lagos. Mapping, analysing and comparing the everyday experiences of informal transport operators across the continent, this book sheds light on the multiple challenges facing Africa’s informal transport workers today, as they negotiate the contours of city life, expand their horizons of possibility and make the most of their time. It thus offers directions for more effective policy response to urban public transport, which is changing fundamentally and rapidly in light of neoliberal urban planning strategies and ‘World Class’ city ambitions.

Author : K. Flynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137079862

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Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City by K. Flynn Pdf

A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics.

Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139459556

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The African City by Bill Freund Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Wyrod
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520961784

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AIDS and Masculinity in the African City by Robert Wyrod Pdf

AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda—a country known as Africa’s great AIDS success story. Based on a decade of ethnographic research in an urban slum community in the capital Kampala, this book reveals the persistence of masculine privilege in the age of AIDS and the implications such privilege has for combating AIDS across the African continent.

Author : M. Murray,G. Myers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230603349

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Cities in Contemporary Africa by M. Murray,G. Myers Pdf

This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.

Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527929

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Author : Anthony Michael O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0091529816

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The African City by Anthony Michael O'Connor Pdf

This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to individual cities. Much has been written about urban Africa, but nearly all relates to particular cities: this book provides a context for such studies. This review provides an essential foundation both for theoretical clarification of the processes of urbanization and for practical planning decisions. The topics covered range from rural-urban migration and national urban systems to the urban economy, housing , and the spatial structure of cities. The sharp contrasts between indigenous and colonial urban traditions are emphasized, but so also is the evidence for convergence today, as indigenization takes place in the colonial cities while Westernization proceeds ini those of indigenous origin.

Author : Bruce Whitehouse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253000750

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Migrants and Strangers in an African City by Bruce Whitehouse Pdf

In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.

Author : Harm J. De Blij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003673962

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Mombasa by Harm J. De Blij Pdf