Stephen Marr (Sweden Malmo University), Patience Mususa (Sweden Nordic Africa Institute)

DIY Urbanism in Africa

Politics and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Anexamination of Africaâ s urban residentâ s experimentations with living amidstcrisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence andsocial marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Africa Now
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 242mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781786999016
• ISBN-10: 1786999013
• Artikelnr.: 59998589

Autorenporträt

Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Conceptual Framing 1. DIY Urbanisms Old and New 2. DIY
Urbanism in Distressed Cities in Africa 3. Reconnaissance Discourse of DIY
and Urban Living in Nigeria 4. DIY Urbanism in an African Context and its
Potential as a Collaborative Placemaking Tool for Bridging Africa's Urban
Infrastructure Deficit Part II: Case Studies 5. Political Economy of
Community-led Security Provisioning in Urban Africa 6. The Production of
Urban Space through Multi-scaled Political Networks in Lagos, Nigeria 7.
Historicizing Precarity and DIY Urbanism in Accra, Ghana 8. Exploring
Street Informality as Design Method: Experiences from Nigerian and Ghanaian
Cities 9. Self-made Urbanism Handbook: The Case of Freetown, Sierra Leone
10. Resistance or Utopia? DIY Eco-communities in Durban, South Africa 11.
Disability and Urbanism in Malawi 12. DIY Urbanism in Boom and Bust: a
Perspective from Africa's Copperbelt Conclusion