Scope and dimensions of African suburbanisms
Africa, Afrique, banlieue, pavillonnaire, périphéries, périurbain, forme urbaine, Mabin Alan
<div>Alan Mabin discusses the nature of cities and suburbs in Africa.</div>
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<b>Alan Mabin </b>is Head of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.</div>
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Alan Mabin
8 April 2011
http://www.yorku.ca/city/Events/
African urbanism
Africa, Afrique, urbanisation, économie, croissance urbaine, Pieterse Edgar
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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Africa is the fastest urbanising region in the world, and has become the focus of increasing attention from architects and planners, academics, development agencies and urban think-tanks. Professor Edgar Pieterse argues for a new way of thinking about African cities to accompany this surge of interest and to replace traditional views of African cities as sites of absence and neglect. Rapid urbanisation along with impressive economic growth rates for much of the Continent represents an interesting moment to take stock of how academic discourses capture and animate African urbanism.</div>
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<b>Edgar Pieterse</b> is holder of the NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy. He directs the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.</div>
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Edgar Pieterse
26 January 2011
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
Migrants and strangers in an African city: Exile, dignity, belonging
urbanité, Africa, Afrique, Brazzaville, migrant, immigration, interaction sociale, intégration, anthropologie, Whitehouse Bruce
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of “strangers.” Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today’s globalized world.</div> </div> <b>Bruce Whitehouse </b>is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University.</div> </div>
Bruce Whitehouse
Indiana University Press
February 2012
288
Ouvrage
Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
, bidonville, quartier informel, informal settlement, renouvellement urbain, politique urbaine, droit à la ville, Africa, Afrique, slum clearance, Huchzermeyer Marie, habitants
<div><b>Organisers' description:</b></div> </div> The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy, with its heightened focus on urban competitiveness and associated urban policy norms, encourages this interpretation. The cases it presents cover a range of conflicts between urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their ‘right to the city’.<br /> <br /> It offers disturbing insights into post-apartheid South Africa’s urban trajectory, with uneasy parallels in other African countries, both in the form of ‘slum’ eradication drives and in ambitious, but flawed, flagship pilot projects.<br /> <br /> The book aims to inspire a wider understanding of, sympathy for and solidarity with struggles against informal settlement eradication in South Africa and beyond, and argues that the right to the city, in its original conception, has direct relevance for urban contestations in Africa today.</div> </div> <b>Marie Huchzermeyer</b> is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.</div> </div>
Marie Huchzermeyer
UCT Press
2011
256
Ouvrage
African metropolitan architecture
architecture, cadre bâti, built environment, environnement urbain, photographie, Africa, Afrique, Adjaye David
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The architecture and built environment of African cities are documented in groundbreaking photographs by acclaimed architect David Adjaye. David Adjaye is renowned for his highly acclaimed buildings in Europe and the United States. Of Tanzanian descent but raised and educated in London, he has found endless inspiration for his modern buildings in Africa. This book is the culmination of a personal quest--a decadelong project to document the built environment of every major African city.<br /> <br /> Adjaye has photographed thousands of structures and places, letting each speak for itself in contrast to a design world obsessed with photorealistic slickness. Fifty-three cities are featured, arranged by terrain and region, including: the Maghreb, the Sahel, Savannah and Grassland, Mountain and Highveld, Desert, and Forest. Each is presented with a concise urban history, fact file, maps, and satellite imagery along with the photographs and essays by leading scholars and critics.<br /> <br /> This handsome seven-volume slipcased edition is one of the most original and ambitious publications of our time and is sure to be among the great architectural collectibles.<br /> <br /> <b>David Adjaye</b> is the principal of Adjaye Associates, London, New York, and Berlin.</div> </div>
David Adjaye
Rizzoli
November 2011
568
Ouvrage
African cities : Alternative visions of urban theory and practice
Africa, Afrique, ville postcoloniale, post-colonial city, ville informelle, informal city, cosmopolitisme, Myers Garth
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> 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. In this groundbreaking book, Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. It argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies.<br /> <br /> Cities in Africa are still 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 the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa, the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to highlight a number of themes - from postcolonialism to cosmopolitanism - that help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.</div> </div> <b>Garth Andrew Myers</b> is Director of the Kansas African Studies Centre and Professor in the Departments of Geography and African/African-American Studies at the University of Kansas.</div> </div>
Garth Myers
Zed Books
April 2011
224
Ouvrage
The cities of Roman Africa
Rome antique, Ancient Rome, Africa, Afrique, cité, espace urbain, culture urbaine, genèse des villes, ville détruite, archéologie, Sears Gareth, histoire urbaine
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. "The Cities of Roman Africa" examines the development of urban space and cultural life in this province from the beginnings of Roman rule in the second century BC to the fall of the province of Africa to the Vandals in AD 439.<br /> <br /> In this engaging and strikingly illustrated new book, Gareth Sears considers the incorporation of Roman culture into Africa, and its use by African populations and, in particular, their elites. The author also explores the persistence of pre-Roman cultures, and how these factors affected the evolution of the cities, intellectual life and even entertainment under the Republic and Empire.<br /> <br /> <b>Gareth Sears</b> is a lecturer in Roman History at the University of Birmingham. He is a specialist on Roman North Africa, and has co-directed archaeological work at the city of Cyrene in Libya for the Cyrenaica Archaeological Project.</div> </div>
Gareth Sears
The History Press
March 2011
160
Ouvrage
Global urbanization
, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, planification, mondialisation, pays en développement, developing countries, Asia, Asie, Africa, Afrique, mégapole, Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century.<br /> <br /> Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil.<br /> <br /> While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development.</div> </div> <b>Eugenie L. Birch</b> is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign. <br /> <b>Susan M. Wachter</b> is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign.</div> </div>
NC
University of Pennsylvania Press
December 2010
384
Ouvrage
Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia
, développement urbain, développement durable, changement climatique, ville durable, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, logement, Africa, Afrique, Asia, Asie, Kumssa Asfaw, Yuen Belinda
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. Audience: This book is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing world.<br /> <br /> <b>Contents : </b></div> Part I Introduction<br /> Africa and Asia: Two of the World’s Fastest Growing Regions - Belinda Yuen and Asfaw Kumssa<br /> <br /> Part II Climate Change and Urban Development<br /> Climate Change and Living Cities: Global Problems with Local Solutions - Priyanka Anand and Kallidaikurichi Seetharam<br /> Climate Change in the Context of Urban Development in Africa - Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.<br /> A Region of Contrasts: Urban Development, Housing and Poverty in Asia - Kioe Sheng Yap<br /> The Effects of Climate Change on Urban Human Settlements in Africa<br /> Aloysius Clemence Mosha<br /> <br /> Part III Climate Change and Housing: Case Studies from Africa and Asia<br /> Climate Change and the Housing Environment in Ghana - Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa and Michael Poku-Boansi<br /> Creating a Sustainable Living Environment for Public Housing in Singapore - Johnny Liang Heng Wong<br /> Climatic Change and Housing Issues in South Africa - Bornwell C. Chikulo<br /> Climate Change and Sustainable Housing in Uganda - Stephen A.K. Magezi<br /> Housing and Climate Change: Adaptation Strategies in Vietnam - Vinh Hung Hoang<br /> <br /> Part IV Climate Change and Its Effect on Cities: Case Studies from Africa and Asia<br /> Climate Change and Cities’ Actions in China - Xiaodong Pan and Zhenshan Li<br /> Climate Change and Its Effect on Cities of Eastern African Countries - Samuel Kerunyu Gichere, George Michael Sikoyo, and Ally Matano Saidi <br /> Climate Change and Liveable Cities in Malaysia - Kamalruddin Shamsudin and Suan Siow Neo<br /> Climate Change and Its Effect on Urban Housing and Liveable Cities: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe - Rodreck Mupedziswa</div> </div> <b>Belinda Yuen </b>is an Associate Professor in the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore.</div> <b>Asfaw Kumssa </b>is Coordinator of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development Africa Office in Nairobi.</div> </div>
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Springer
December 2010
266
Ouvrage
Capital cities in Africa: Power and powerlessness
Africa, Afrique, ville africaine, African city, capitale, capital city, politique de la ville, espace urbain, architecture, démographie, urbanisation, gouvernance, forme urbaine, Conakry, Dakar, Lomé, Lagos, Abuja, Brazzaville, Nairobi, Maputo, Luanda, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Le Cap, Bekker Simon, Therborn Göran
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals simultaneously become centres of 'counter-power', locations of high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition.<br />
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This volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive population growth and in most cases stunted economic development. Starting at the point of national political emancipation, each case study explores the complicated processes of nation-state building through its manifestation in the 'urban geology' of the city – its architecture, iconography, layout and political use of urban space. Although the evolution of each of these cities is different, they share a critical demographic feature: an extraordinarily rapid process of urbanisation that is more politically than economically driven. Overwhelmed by the inevitable challenges resulting from this urban sprawl, the governments seated in most of these capital cities are in effect both powerful – wielding power over their populace – and powerless, lacking power to implement their plans and to provide for their inhabitants.<br />
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In its concentration on urban forms of multi-layered power, symbolic as well as material, Capital Cities in Africa cuts a new path in the rich field of studies related to African cities and politics. It will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from political history, to sociology, to geography, architecture and urban planning.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Simon Bekker and Göran Therboro - Introduction</div>
Odile Goerg - Conakry</div>
Amadou Diop - Dakar</div>
Phillippe Gervais-Lambony - Lomé</div>
Laurent Fouchard - Lagos</div>
Wale Adebanwi - Abuja</div>
Gabriel Tati - Brazzaville</div>
Samuel Owuor and Teresa Mbatia - Nairobi</div>
Paul Jenkins - Maputo and Luanda</div>
Alan Mabin - South African capital cities</div>
Göran Therborn and Simon Bekker - Conclusion</div>
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<b>Simon Bekker</b> is a South African sociologist who has served as Professor of Development Studies at Rhodes University, and as Director of the Centre for Social and Development Studies at the (then) University of Natal. He is currently Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of Stellenbosch.<br />
<b>Göran Therborn</b> is an international Swedish sociologist who has served as Professor of Sociology at Cambridge and Uppsala Universities, as Professor of Politics in Nijmegen Netherlands, and as co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. He has launched a globally comparative project on Cities of Power, focusing on capital cities.</div>
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NC
HSRC Press
2011
264
Ouvrage
http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2284&cat=11&page=1
Reflections on identity in four African cities
identité, ville africaine, African city, Africa, Afrique, Cape Town, Le Cap, Johannesburg, Libreville, Lomé, espace urbain, language, langage, race, class, classe, société urbaine, travail, Bekker Simon, Leildé Anne
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NC
African Minds
2006
248
Ouvrage
African cities reader I: Pan-African practices
, urbanité, culture urbaine, littérature, art, Africa, Afrique, Pieterse Edgar, Edjabe Ntone
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NC
African Centre for Cities Chimurenga
2010
259
Ouvrage
African cities reader II: Mobilities and fixtures
Africa, Afrique, mobilité, urbanité, culture urbaine, littérature, Edjabe Ntone, Pieterse Edgar
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NC
Chimurenga African Centre for Cities
2011
208
Ouvrage
Reconsidering informality : Perspectives from urban Africa
ville informelle, économie, emploi, occupation du sol, logement, aménagement urbain, Africa, Afrique, espace urbain, Hansen Karen Tranberg, Vaa Mariken
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: Studies of urban land use and housing, and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa’s future will be to an increasing extent urban. Nevertheless, the inherited legal, institutional and financial arrangements for managing urban development are inadequate. The recent decades of neo-liberal political and economic reforms have increased social inequality across urban space. Access to employment, shelter and services is precarious for most urban residents. Extra-legal housing and unregistered economic activities proliferate. Basic urban services are increasingly provided informally. The result is the phenomenal growth of the informal city and extra-legal activities. How do urban residents see these activities? What do they accomplish through them? How can these “informal” cities be governed?<br /> <br /> The case studies are drawn from a diverse set of cities on the African continent. A central theme is how practices that from an official standpoint are illegal or extra-legal do not only work but are considered legitimate by the actors concerned. Another is how the informal city is not exclusively the domain of the poor, but also provides shelter and livelihoods for better-off segments of the urban population.</div> </div> <b>Contents :</b></div> </div> Preface<br /> Introduction - Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa<br /> <br /> SECTION I: LOCALITY, PLACE, AND SPACE<br /> Sharing Public Space in Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville : Immigrant Fishermen and a Multinational Oil Company - Gabriel Tati<br /> The Right to Stay in Cato Crest : Formality and Informality in a South African Development Project - Knut G. Nustad<br /> Who Rules the Streets? The Politics of Vending Space in Lusaka - Karen Tranberg Hansen<br /> <br /> SECTION II: ECONOMY, WORK, AND LIVELIHOODS<br /> Trade and the Politics of Informalisation in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau - Ilda Lourenço-Lindell<br /> Home Based Enterprises in a Period of Economic Restructuring in Zambia - Barbara Mwila Kazimbaya-Senkwe<br /> Home Industries and the Formal City in Harare, Zimbabwe - Amin Y. Kamete</div> <br /> SECTION III: LAND, HOUSING, AND PLANNING<br /> Land Use Planning and Governance in Dar es Salaam. A Case Study from Tanzania - Marco Burra<br /> Actors and Interests. The Development of an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya - Rose Gatabaki-Kamau and Sara Karirah-Gitau<br /> The Law and Access to Land for Housing in Maseru, Lesotho - Resetselemang Clement Leduka<br /> Upgrading an Informal Settlement in Cape Town, South Africa - John Abbott<br /> Beyond the Formal/Informal Dichotomy. Access to Land in Maputo, Mozambique - Paul Jenkins</div> </div> <b>Karen Tranberg Hansen </b>is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.</div> The late <b>Mariken Vaa </b>was the coordinator of the Cities, Governance and Civil Society in Africa programme at the Nordic Africa Institute and Professor of Development Studies at Oslo University College.</div> </div>
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
2004
235
Ouvrage
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-103
African migration and urbanization in comparative perspective
Africa, Afrique, santé, health, migration urbaine, urbanisation, system, système
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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In June 2003, PUM presided over a symposium that evaluated migration and urbanization in developing African countries in light of comparative evidence from Asia and Latin America. <br />
Organizing the conference also brought into keen focus a significant gap in the field of migration research, namely the relationship between migration and environmental change.</div>
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<b>Papers (only papers related to urban studies are listed) : </b></div>
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Marcela Cerruti - Urbanization and internal migration patterns in Latin America</div>
Bryan Roberts - Comparative systems : An overview</div>
Abdou Maliq Simone - Moving towards uncertainty : Migration and the turbulence of African urban life</div>
Peter Marcuse - Migration and urban spatial structure in a globalizing world : A comparative look</div>
Graeme Hugo - Urbanization in Asia : An overview</div>
Alejandro Portes - Urbanization in comparative perspective</div>
C. Elisa Florez - Migration and the urban informal sector in Columbia</div>
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly - The State and internal migration in Guadalajara and West Baltimore</div>
Michel Garenne - Migration, urbanisation and child health in Africa : A global perspective</div>
Burt Singer and Marcia Castro - Migration, urbanization and malaria : A comparative analysis of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Machadino, Rondônia, Brazil</div>
Mark VanLandingham - Impacts of rural to urban migration on the health of young adult migrants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam</div>
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Multiple authors
Program in Urbanization and Migration, Princeton University
4 - 7 June 2003
Autre
http://pum.princeton.edu/pumconference/papers.html
Associational life in African cities : Popular responses to the urban crisis
Africa, Afrique, service public, association, gouvernance, , pauvreté, infrastructures, pays en développement, interaction sociale, religion, civil society, société civile, logement, foncier, infrastructures, Tostensen Arne, Tvedten Inge, Vaa Mariken
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
2011
320
Ouvrage
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
rural, aménagement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, économie, urbanisation, migration urbaine, territoire, Africa, Afrique, Baker Jonathan
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration of the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation. But for the rural majority of Africa's population it is the small town with which they have the most intense contacts. Case studies are presented from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.</div>
<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Jonathan Baker and Claes-Fredrik Claeson - Introduction</div>
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PLANNING FOR SMALL URBAN CENTRES IN THE NATIONAL CONTEXT</div>
Robson Silitshena - The Tswana agro-town and rural economy in Botswana</div>
R.A. Obudho and G.O. Aduwo - Small urban centres and the spatial planning of Kenya</div>
Layi Egunjobi - The development potentials of local central places in Nigeria</div>
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ECONOMIC NETWORKS, SMALL ENTERPRISES AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP</div>
Poul Ove Pedersen - The role of small rural towns in development</div>
Jesper Rasmussen - Small urban centres and the development of local enterprises in Zimbabwe</div>
Kadmiel H. Wekwete - Rural urbanisation in Zimbabwe : Prospects for the future</div>
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URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES</div>
Anders Hjort af Ornas - Town-based pastoralism in Eastern Africa</div>
Jørgen Andreasen - Urban-rural linkages and their impace on urban housing in Kenya</div>
Mariken Vaa - Paths to the city : Migration histories of poor women in Bamako</div>
Ann Schlyter - Women in Harare : Gender aspects of urban-rural interaction</div>
Tade Akin Aina - The urban poor and the commercialisation of land in Nigeria</div>
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THE CONSTRAINTS AND DISTORTIONS IMPOSED BY STATE POLICIES</div>
Jonathan Baker - The growth and functions of small urban centres in Ethiopia</div>
Jeremy gould and Gun Mickels - Regional development in marginal Africa : Luapula Provice, Zambia</div>
Adil Mustafa Ahmad and Mohamed El Hadi Abu Sin - Urban development in a rural context : The case of New Haifa, Sudan</div>
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<b>Jonathan Baker </b>is a Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator for the Urban Development in Rural Context in Africa programme at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.</div>
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NC
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
1990
268
Autre
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-345
Rural-urban dynamics in Francophone Africa
Afrique francophone, Francophone Africa, Africa, Afrique, ruralité, rural, territoire, Baker Jonathan, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal, Togo, Bénin, Sénégal
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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This book present some examples of the richness and variety of contemporary research on rural-urban interactions by francophone researchers. Case studies are drawn from Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal and Togo.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Jonathan Baker - Introduction</div>
Frédéric Giraut - Contemporary dynamics of small towns in West Africa</div>
Gabriel Kwami Nyassogbo - Urban-rural interactions in sub-Saharan Africa : The case of Palimé and its hinterland in South-West Togo</div>
Robert Edmond Ziavoula - A new look at linking towns in the Congo : What are the alternatives for a better structuring of space?</div>
Albert Tingbé-Azalou - Cultural dimensions of urban-rural relations in Benin : The case of Abomey and its hinterland</div>
Alphonsine Bouya - The roles of women in urban-rural interaction : The case of Sokone in Senegal</div>
Gabin Kponhassia - Urban life and traditional models : A study of the social networks in a secondary town in Côte d'Ivoire - the example of Agboville</div>
Sylvie Bredeloup - Dimbroko, the typical Ivorian town, or the absence of urban-rural interaction?</div>
Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo - Dori - a town in the Sahel : Social identities and urbanity</div>
Basilisa Sanou - What solutions to the "antagonistic" urban-rural relationship? The Ouagadougou suburb project</div>
Yveline Dévérin-Kouanda - From the rural compound to the urban plot : Changes in the architecture and the fuctions of dwellings in Mossi Country, Burkina Faso</div>
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<b>Jonathan Baker </b>is a Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator for the Urban Development in Rural Context in Africa programme at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.</div>
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NC
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
1997
194
Autre
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-262
The urban challenge in Africa : Growth and management of its large cities
Africa, Afrique, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, mégapole, développement urbain, dynamiques urbaines, gouvernance, mondialisation, Cairo, Le Caire, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Nairobi, Rakodi Carole
<b>Extract from the Foreword by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza : </b></div>
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With contributions from prominent urban planning scholars and experts in Africa, The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities, edited by Professor Carole Rakodi of the University of Wales, Cardiff, represents the latest in a series of books from the United Nations University Programme on Mega-cities and Urban Development.<br />
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Africa, long thought of as one of the least urbanized continents, will likely have over one half of its population in urban areas by 2020. The Urban Challenge in Africa introduces and highlights many important development issues in Africa. In addition to chapters on individual cities including Cairo, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, and Lagos, the book also explores important sectoral issues such as property markets, urban governance, and urban-rural linkages.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Foreword<br />
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1 Introduction<br />
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Part I Globalization and Africa: The challenge of urban growth<br />
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2 Global forces, urban change, and urban management in Africa<br />
3 Urbanization, globalization, and economic crisis in Africa<br />
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Part II The "mega-cities" of Africa<br />
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4 The challenge of urban growth in Cairo<br />
5 Johannesburg: A city and metropolitan area in transformation<br />
6 The challenges of growth and development in metropolitan Lagos<br />
7 Kinshasa: A reprieved mega-city?<br />
8 Abidjan: From the public making of a modern city to urban management of a metropolis<br />
9 Nairobi: National capital and regional hub<br />
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Part III The dynamics of city development<br />
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10 Globalization or informalization? African urban economies in the 1990s<br />
11 Residential property markets in African cities<br />
12 The state and civil society: Politics, government, and social organization in African cities<br />
13 Urban lives: Adopting new strategies and adapting rural links<br />
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Part IV Rising to the challenge<br />
14 Towards appropriate urban development policy in emerging mega-cities in Africa<br />
15 Urban management: The recent experience<br />
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16 Conclusion</div>
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<b>Carole Rakodi </b>is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Religions and Development Research Programme in the International Development Department, the University of Birmingham.</div>
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United Nations University Press
1997
Ouvrage
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The African city centre re(sourced) : African Perspectives 2009 congress
Africa, Afrique, centre-ville, espace urbain, forme urbaine
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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, is it a historical core, a business district or no physical location at all? Food for a lengthy palaver.<br />
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Out of the central theme, three sub-themes were distilled to enable in-depth debate: (1) the African City Centre in contemporary global context, (2) the (historic) identity of the African City Centre and (3) the future life of the African City Centre. It is on these three sub-themes that entries were called-in.<br />
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Entries... range from art work, film, architectural projects to scientifically reviewed academic papers. These are included in the following presentation.</div>
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<b>Papers : </b></div>
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Master keynote address :<br />
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Imagining Urban Futures - Heinrich Wolff<br />
Economic heterogeneity and the return of the central city - Abdumaliq Simone<br />
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Refereed papers :<br />
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The woes of a 'straight jacketed' central business district: The case study of Odum, Kumasi - S.O. Afram and G.F.A. Olympio<br />
Meanings and perceptions of the built environment peri-urban areas of Maputo, Mozambique - Jorgen E Andersen<br />
The indigenous urban tissue of Addis-Ababa - A city model for the future growth of African metropolis - Jörg Baumeister and Nikolaus Knebel<br />
Agency in an African city. The various trajectories through time and space of the public market of Kinshasha - Luce Beeckmans<br />
Recentering the city: An anthropology of secondary cities in Africa - Filip De Boeck, Ann Cassiman and Steven van Wolputte<br />
The urban market: Social and spatial configurations in the African city - Garret Gantner<br />
Working on cities: an Experience from Kumasi, Ghana. A design studio for architects and urban managment students - Ellen Geurts<br />
'Cities without slums'? Global architects of power and the African city - Branwen Gruffydd Jones<br />
coffeemanifesto: sampling instant and slow spaces in the African city - Hannah le Roux<br />
Planned and unplanned towns in former Portuguese colonies in sub-saharan Africa: an analysis of Silveira's Iconografia - M.C. Matos, T.B. Ramos and L.P. Costa<br />
Narrating urban acupuncture - Bärbel Müller<br />
Diagnoses on Cairo City, reflective analysis of Ramses square - Ayatollah Musa and Robert H.C. van Kats<br />
UniverCity-centre: the university as an anchor and its capacity for democratizing urban space - Caroline Newton<br />
The evolution of the Kibuga into Kampala's city centre - analysis of the transformation of an African city - Barnabas Nawangwe<br />
A search for specificity: learning from Africa - Liz Ogbu<br />
Ethical positions in Built Environment education - Mark R.O. Olweny and Charles L.M. Olweny<br />
Ile-Ife: a cultural phenomenon in the throes of transformation - Cordelia O. Osasona, Lee O. Ogunshakin and David A. Jiboye<br />
African city: towards a new paradigm - "chameleonic" urbanism for hybrid cities - DMLS Viana<br />
Xilunguine, Lourenço Marques, Maputo – structure and agency in urban form: past, present and future - Paul Jenkins<br />
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Refereed Posters :<br />
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Learning from Earth - Caitlin Martusewicz<br />
Garden City Settlements - Garret Gantner<br />
Between Land and Water - Giovanni Vio <br />
Working on Cities - Imanuel Sirron-Kakpor <br />
Modernism vs Capitalism - Paulo Moreira</div>
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Multiple authors
University of Pretoria
25 - 28 September 2009
Autre
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