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Title:
African cities and the development conundrum / edited by Carole Ammann, Till Forster.
Publisher:
Brill Nijhoff,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xvii, 329 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Urbanization--Africa.
Urban policy--Africa.
City planning--Africa.
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
Africa.
Villes--Afrique.
Urbanisation--Afrique.
Politique urbaine--Afrique.
Urbanisme--Afrique.
Stadtplanung
Versta˜dterung
Entwicklung
Sozialer Wandel
Afrika
Other Authors:
Ammann, Carole, editor.
Fo˜rster, Till, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
African cities and the development conundrum: actors and agency in the urban grey zone / Till Forster and Carole Ammann -- The politics of governing African urban spaces / Edgar Pieterse -- Urban governance: comparative perspectives on co-optation, control and camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda / Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin -- Why is co-management of parks not working in Johannesburg? The difficult reframing of State mandate and practices in the post-apartheid era / Clair Benit-Gbaffou -- Online representation of sustainable city initiatives in Africa: how inclusive? / Ton Dietz -- Incremental dependencies: politics and ethics of claim making at the fringes of Windhoek, Namibia / Lalli Metsola -- Towards an integrative approach to spatial transformation: addressing contextual and spatial indifference in design, urban planning and international cooperation: a case study from Addis Ababa / Sascha Delz -- Accra's decongestion policy: another face of urban clearance or bulldozing approach? / Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu -- The Africa problem of global urban theory: re-conceptualising planetary urbanisation / Garth Myers -- Urban identities and belonging: young men's discourses about Pikine (Senegal) / Sebastian Prothmann -- The city and its ways of life: local influences on middle-income milieus in Nairobi / Florian Stoll -- Urbanisation and the political geographies of violent struggle for power and control: mining boomtowns in Eastern Congo / Karen Buscher.
Series:
International development policy, 1663-9383 ; volume 10
ISBN:
9004387927
9789004387928
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1050456041
LCCN:
2018040919
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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