African cities and collaborative futures : urban platforms and metropolitan logistics /

African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the nature of African cities - the interactions of residents with infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability, seen through local narratives a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Keith, Michael, 1960- (Editor ), Santos, Andreza Aruska de Souza (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Colección:Global urban transformations.
Temas:
Cities and towns > Africa.
Cities and towns > Africa > Forecasting.
Cities and towns > Africa > Growth > Case studies.
Villes > Afrique.
Villes > Afrique > Prévision.
Villes > Afrique > Croissance > Études de cas.
Urban communities.
Southern Africa.
Human geography.
Development studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns > Forecasting
Cities and towns > Growth
Africa
African cities; infrastructure; seeing like a city
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities
  • Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos2 At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia
  • Paula Meth, Alison Todes, Sarah Charlton, Tatenda Mukwedeya, Jennifer Houghton, Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu, Zhengli Huang, Divine Mawuli Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi and Fikile Masikane3 Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan urban transformation
  • Mark Pelling, Alejandro Barcena, Hayley Leck, Ibidun Adelekan, David Dodman, Hamadou Issaka, Cassidy Johnson, Mtafu Manda, Blessing Mberu, Ezebunwa Nwokocha, Emmanuel Osuteye and Soumana Boubacar4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa
  • Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia5 Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa's urban waste sector
  • Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes and Erik Swyngedouw6 'Candles are not bright enough': inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality?
  • Federico Caprotti, Jon Phillips, Saska Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski, Stephen Essex, Jiska de Groot, Lucy Baker, Yachika Reddy and Peta Wolpe7 Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam
  • Irmelin Joelsson8 Conclusion: from an 'infrastructural turn' to the platform logics of logistics
  • Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza SantosIndex

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