For the City Yet to Come : Changing African Life in Four Cities /

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"Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Simone, A. M. (Abdou Maliqalim) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sociale verandering.
Stadssociologie.
Sociology, Urban.
Social change.
Cities and towns.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Changement social > Afrique.
Sociologie urbaine > Afrique.
Villes > Afrique.
Social change > Africa.
Sociology, Urban > Africa.
Cities and towns > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : remaking African cities
  • The informal : the Projet de Ville in Pikine, Senegal
  • The invisible : Winterveld, South Africa
  • The spectral : assembling Douala, Cameroon
  • Movement : the Zawiyyah as the city
  • Reconciling engagement and belonging : some matters of history
  • The production and management of urban resources
  • Cities and change.

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