African cities and the development conundrum /

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This 10th thematic issue of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa's recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ammann, Carole (Editor), Förster, Till (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:International development policy, Volume 10
Subjects:
Urbanization > Africa.
Urban policy > Africa.
City planning > Africa.
Urbanisation > Afrique.
Politique urbaine > Afrique.
LAW / Environmental
City planning.
Urban policy.
Urbanization.
Africa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone / Till Förster and and Carole Ammann
  • The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces / Edgar Pieterse
  • Urban Governance
  • Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview / Warren Smit
  • Informal 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? / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
  • Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone
  • 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 / Sascha Delz
  • Accra's Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? / Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu
  • The Rural-Urban Continuum
  • 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 Büscher.

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