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

DIY Urbanism in Africa

Politics and Practice
Herausgeber: Nordic Africa Institute

• Broschiertes Buch

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: 232mm x 154mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781786999023
• ISBN-10: 1786999021
• Artikelnr.: 60009672

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