Cities in Contemporary Africa

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Murray, Martin J. (EDT)/ Myers, Garth A. (EDT)

页数:320

出版时间:2007-6

价格:$ 107.35

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9781403970350

图书标签:urban

This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises that characterize contemporary African cities. It wrestles with important questions concerning how large numbers of people without regular work nevertheless find ways to survive and even prosper. It balances investigations of particular cities in sub-Saharan Africa with considerations of a diversity of topics, themes and multi-city comparisons, including themes in: culture, imagination, place and space; political economy and work livelihoods; and urban planning and governance. The collection is both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Aimed at mid-level undergraduate students, these essays, taken as a whole, provide an understanding of what is happening in African cities today, and why.

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