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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simone, A. M. (Abdou Maliqalim) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Africa.
Sociology, Urban > Africa.
Social change > Africa.
Villes > Afrique.
Sociologie urbaine > Afrique.
Changement social > Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns
Social change
Sociology, Urban
Stadssociologie.
Sociale verandering.
Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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