Everyday Urban Practices in Africa Disrupting Global Norms
This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human settlements, development studies, and African studi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Taylor & Francis Group
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge Studies in African Development Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842239906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Global Norms, Urban Africa, the Everyday, and Disruption
- Part I Heterogeneity
- 2 Questioning the Urban-Centrism of the New Urban Agenda and Its Implications for African Cities
- 3 Disrupting the Myth of Cohesion-Generating Public Space: Contrasting Narratives from Johannesburg and Berlin
- 4 The Hybridisation of Public Transport in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi: Challenging Inscriptions of Innovation Policy in Bus Rapid Transit Systems
- Part II Fluid Belongings
- 5 The Faulty Premise of “Leave No One Behind” in Lagos: A Focus on People Living with Disabilities
- 6 Living among the Dead: Disrupting Narratives on the Inclusion of the Homeless through a Case of Public Open Space in Johannesburg
- 7 Exploring the Potential of the Spatial Agency of Refugees and IDPs to Inform Alternative Approaches of “Protection”: Case Studies from Lagos and Berlin
- Part III Persistence
- 8 Unsettling the Formal–Informal Binary: The Right to Development and Self-Determination in the Harry Gwala Settlement Trajectory in Ekurhuleni, South Africa
- 9 Policy Transfer and the Misplaced Enabling Role of Government in Nigeria’s Housing Policy
- 10 The SDG Monitoring Framework Turns a Blind Eye to the Daily Realities of Lived Tenure Security in African Hybrid Land Transaction Systems: A South African Case
- Part IV Interplay
- 11 Local Government Autonomy, Electoral Systems, and Their Implications for Social Contracts in Nigeria: An Overlooked Obstacle to SDG Implementation
- 12 When Borders Do Not Matter: Contextualising Socio-Developmental Challenges in Urbanised Nigeria–Benin Border Communities
- 13 Transport Infrastructure as a Driver of Sustainable (Urban) Development in Africa? Critical Reflections on the Interrelations between Sustainability Agendas and Infrastructure-Led Development through Experiences from Ethiopia
- 14 Conclusion: Towards Realistic Global Frames that Embrace Everyday Urban Practices in Africa
