African Cities and the Development Conundrum
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 rural co...
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Leiden, Boston:
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2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | International Development Policy
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427466806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- 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 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.
