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African Urban Economies D. Bryceson

African Urban Economies By D. Bryceson

African Urban Economies by D. Bryceson


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Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century?

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African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation? by D. Bryceson

Are Africa's most populous and economically dominant cities a force to reckon with in the twenty-first century? This book analyzes the economies of East and Southern Africa's 'apex' cities, probing how they have altered structurally over time and their current sources of economic vitality and vulnerability at local, national and international levels. Case study chapters focusing on Johannesburg, Chitungwiza, Gaborone, Maputo, Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Mogadishu shed new light on contemporary African urban prospects and problems.

African Urban Economies Reviews

'The volume offers a good introduction to urban, and especially urban dvelopment, themes in Africa'. - Bill Freund, Journal of Southern African Studies

'...the editors of this volume should be complimented for bringing together a number of concise case studies, which cover substantial geographical ground. As such, it offers an analysis of statistical and recent census data, which will certainly be of interest to readers with a general interest in Africa.' - J. Joost Beuving, Modern African Studies

'It is an important book for those concerend with urbanization on a global scale and especially in Africa, providing new insights into the fast-chaning reality of urbanization in Africa today.' - Adrian Atkinson, Development and Change

'This thorough and well-composed volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the key issues of urban development in contemporary eastern and southern Africa.' - Garth A. Myers African Affairs

About D. Bryceson

PHIL AMIS Senior Lecturer, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK JO BEALL Director, Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), London School of Economics, UK OWEN CRANKSHAW Associate Professor, Sociology Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa PAUL JENKINS Director, Centre for Environment and Human Settlements, UK PRISCILLA WANJIRU KARIUKI Professor of Psychology, College of Education and External Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi ROLAND MARCHAL Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Studies and Research/National Center for Scientific Research (CERI/CNRS), USA NICI NELSON Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK SULEIMAN NGWARE Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania AUGUSTUS NUWAGABA Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda SUSAN PARNELL Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa CAROLE RAKODI Professor of International Urban Development, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK ANN SCHLYTER Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global Gender Studies, Goteborg University, Sweden ONALENNA SELOLWANE Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Botswana, Botswana

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa; D.F.Bryceson African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustenance; D.F.Bryceson Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects; D.Potts PART 2: CITY ECONOMIES IN THE MAKING Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?; P.Jenkins Mombasa's Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?; C.Rakodi Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm; A.Nuwagaba PART 3: URBAN LIVELIHOODS AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS Urban Poverty in East Africa: Comparing the Trajectories of Nairobi and Kampala; P.Amis Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the End of the Millennium; Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life; N.Nelson Resilience of a City in Civil War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu; R.Marchal PART 4: URBAN WELFARE, HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg; J.Beall Esther's House: One Woman's 'Home Economics' in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe; A.Schlyter From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone; O.Selowane Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam; S.Ngware PART 5: CONCLUSION Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa's Apex Cities; D.Bryceson

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NPB9781403999474
9781403999474
1403999473
African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation? by D. Bryceson
New
Hardback
Palgrave USA
2005-12-16
353
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