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African cities : competing claims on urban spaces /
Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the te...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa / Theodore Trefon
- Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
- Who Control the Streets? Crime, 'Communities' and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg / Claire Benit-Gbaffou
- African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land / Paul Jenkins
- Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos / Rufus T. Akinyele
- 'Water Wars' in Kumasi, Ghana / Tom C. McCaskie
- Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982-1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Muchaparara Musemwa
- Dealing with 'Strangers': Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End of the Nineteenth Century to 1960 / Laurent Fourchard
- Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and 'Criminals' in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890-1941 / Francesca Locatelli
- The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam / Deborah Fahy Bryceson
- Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961) / Maria Suriano.