The African Metropolis

Author : Toyin Falola,Bisola Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351653220

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The African Metropolis by Toyin Falola,Bisola Falola Pdf

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and political relations forming within these new, often mega, cities. The African Metropolis integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance are shaping cities across Africa, spanning from Nigeria and Ghana to Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The chapters pay particular attention to the voices and daily realities of those most vulnerable to urban transformations, and to questions such as: Who governs? Who should the city serve? Who has a right to the city? And how can the built spaces and contentious legacies of colonialism and prior development regimes be inclusively reconstructed? In addition to highlighting critical contemporary debates, the book furthers our ability to examine the transformations taking place in cities of the global South, providing detailed accounts of local complexities while also generating insights that can scale up and across to similar cities around the world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, urban development and human geography.

Author : James R. Brennan,Andrew Burton,Yusufu Qwaray Lawi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987449705

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Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis by James R. Brennan,Andrew Burton,Yusufu Qwaray Lawi Pdf

"From its modest beginnings in the 1860s, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of Africa's most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city has also acted as a crucible of local social and cultural innovation, exerting a powerful influence on wider Tanzanian society. Reflecting important contemporary socio-economic trends of urban Africa, it has recently attracted the attention of a diverse range of scholars from several disciplines. This collection draws on the best of this scholarship." --Book Jacket.

Author : Sarah Nuttall,Achille Mbembe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822381211

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Johannesburg by Sarah Nuttall,Achille Mbembe Pdf

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone

Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107002937

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The Emergence of the South African Metropolis by Vivian Bickford-Smith Pdf

A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.

Author : James Brennan,Yus Burton
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987081073

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Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis by James Brennan,Yus Burton Pdf

From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent?s most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a comprehensive, and accessible, survey of the city?s development. The perspectives include history, musicology, ethnomusicology, culture including popular culture, land and urban economics. The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the city. Subsequent chapters examine Dar es Salaam?s twentieth century experience through the prism of social change and the administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation; and through popular culture and shifting social relations. The book will be of interest not only to the specialist in urban studies but also to the general reader with an interest in Dar es Salaam?s environmental, social and cultural history.

Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1316628582

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The Emergence of the South African Metropolis African Edition by Vivian Bickford-Smith Pdf

Author : Giuseppe Faldi,Axel Fisher,Luisa Moretto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030849061

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African Cities Through Local Eyes by Giuseppe Faldi,Axel Fisher,Luisa Moretto Pdf

This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning experiments. The international and balanced array of the collected contributions explore emerging research concepts for understanding urban and peri-urban processes in Africa, discuss bottom-up planning and design practices, and present inspirational and innovative co-design methods and participatory tools for steering such change through public spaces, sustainable services and infrastructures. The book is intended for students, researchers, decision-makers and practitioners engaged in planning and design for the built environment in Africa and the Global South at large.

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317991373

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Postcolonial African Cities by Fassil Demissie Pdf

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.

Author : Bill Freund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Elena Motisi,Simon Njami
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 887570709X

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African Metropolis by Elena Motisi,Simon Njami Pdf

Author : Andrew Hake
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Nairobi (Kenya)
ISBN : 0312009801

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African Metropolis by Andrew Hake Pdf

Author : Daniel E. Agbiboa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Abdou Maliqalim Simone
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822334453

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For the City Yet to Come by Abdou Maliqalim Simone Pdf

DIVA study of how colonial and postcolonial legacies manifest in African cities and African urban planning./div

Author : Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811334719

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Smart Economy in Smart African Cities by Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Pdf

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.

Author : Rashauna Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133716

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Slavery's Metropolis by Rashauna Johnson Pdf

A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.