This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and new-comers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources. MARTIN MURRAY is Professor in the Department of Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, USA. . GARTH MYERS is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Kansas, USA. INDICE: Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa; 'G.Myers' &' M.Murray - 'PART I: CULTURE, IMAGINATION, PLACE, AND SPACE - Douala/Johannesburg/New York: Cityscapes Imagined; 'D.Malaquais' - Internal Migration and theEscalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria; 'D.J.Smith - 'Re(figuring) the City: The Mapping of Places and People in Contemporary Kenyan Popular Song Texts; 'J.Nyairo' - Photographic Essay: Johannesburg Fortified; 'M.J.Murray' & 'J.Malan' (photography) - Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis; 'B.Ndjio - 'PART II: POLITICAL ECONOMY, WORK, AND LIVELIHOODS - Economic Globalization from Below: Transnational Refugee Trade Networks in Nairobi; 'E.Campbell - 'Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-owned Shopping Malls; 'D.Miller - 'Cars Are Killing Luanda:Cronyism, Consumerism, and Other Assaults on Angola's Post-War Captial City; 'M.A.Pitcher' & 'A.Graham' - Photographic Essay II: Luanda, Angola; 'A.Graham'- Human Capital, Embedded Resources and Employment for Youth in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; 'M.Grant - 'Gender Relations, Bread Winning and Family Life in Kinshasa; 'G.Iyenda' &' D.Simon' - PART III: URBAN PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE - South African Urbanism: Between the Modern and the Refugee Camp; 'A.M.Simone - 'Planning, Anti-Planning and the Infrastructure Crisis Facing Metropolitan Lagos;' M.Gandy - 'City Life in Zimbabwe at a Time of Fear and Loathing: Urban Planning, Urban Poverty, and Operation Murambatsvina; 'D.Potts - 'SocialControl and Social Welfare under Neoliberalism in South African Cities: Contradictions in Free Basic Water Services; 'G.Ruiters'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11664-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés