Politics and the Urban Frontier : Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

Politics and the Urban Frontier Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socio-economic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to fos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Goodfellow, Tom author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022
Colección:Oxford scholarship online.
Materias:
Urbanization > Political aspects
City planning
Africa, East
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792871606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. East Africa and the politics of late urbanization
  • 2. Transformation and divergence
  • 3. The making of urban territory
  • 4. The making of urban economies
  • 5. New urban visions and the infrastructure boom
  • 6. Urban property scapes
  • 7. Working the city
  • 8. The politics of noise and silence
  • 9. Politics and the urban frontier.

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