Main entry:

Myers, Garth Andrew.

Title & Author:

African cities : alternative visions of urban theory and practice / Garth Myers.

Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books Ltd., 2011.

Description:

xi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.
1 What if the postmetropolis is Lusaka? -- 2 Postcolonial cities -- 3 (I)n(f)ormal cities -- 4 Governing Africa's cities -- 5 Wounded city -- 6 Cosmopolitan cities.

Summary:

As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning. This book uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns in urban studies and disciplines that study cities, as well as in African studies. It argues for a re-vision_ a seeing again, and a revising_ of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa still are either ignored, banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities, or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of both the mainstream and even critical urban literature. This book encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. It uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers, and artists on a broad range of sixteen cities in Africa to highlight six themes that help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.

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Contributor biographical information
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ISBN:

1848135092
9781848135093
9781848135086
1848135084

Subject:

Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
Cities and towns Africa.
Sociology, Urban Africa.
Urbanization Africa.
Villes Afrique.
Sociologie urbaine Afrique.
Urbanisation Afrique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Urban.
Society.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Stadt
Verstädterung
Großstadt
Stadtsoziologie.
Constitutional law Afrika.
City planning Africa.
Africa.
Afrika

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279978
Call No.: BIB 216310
Status: Available