This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance shape cities across Africa. Who governs? Who should the city serve? And how can the built spaces and legacies of colonialism and prior development regimes be inclusively reconstructed?
This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance shape cities across Africa. Who governs? Who should the city serve? And how can the built spaces and legacies of colonialism and prior development regimes be inclusively reconstructed?
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Bisola Falola studies spatial and social inequality as a researcher in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: The Politics of Space and Patterns of Segregation and Marginalization 1. Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Scoio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana 2. Analytical Views on Past and Present Official and Cultural Narratives of Asmara 3. 'Urban Man in Jos': Growth, Transiting Power and Authority in a Conflict Prone City 4. The Rise, Fall, and Reemergence of Ponte City 5. Urban Renewal Schemes and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Study of Oke Ilu-Eri 6. Issues and Challenges in the Urban Renewal Programme of Lagos State Part II: Everyday Claims to Space and Rights 7. Informal Citizens? Residents' Perceptions of Space and Place in a South African Informal Settlement 8. Human Spaces and Urban Livelihoods: Language use in Makoko Slum Settlement 9. The Unheralded Politics of Urban Spaces in Nigeria: Case of City Prostitution and Precarious Livelihood 10. Conflicts and Urban Dwellers in Jos: Issues in Rights to City 11. Modernizing Makadara Gardens: Development and the Struggle for Urban Space in Kenya
Introduction Part I: The Politics of Space and Patterns of Segregation and Marginalization 1. Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Scoio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana 2. Analytical Views on Past and Present Official and Cultural Narratives of Asmara 3. 'Urban Man in Jos': Growth, Transiting Power and Authority in a Conflict Prone City 4. The Rise, Fall, and Reemergence of Ponte City 5. Urban Renewal Schemes and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Study of Oke Ilu-Eri 6. Issues and Challenges in the Urban Renewal Programme of Lagos State Part II: Everyday Claims to Space and Rights 7. Informal Citizens? Residents' Perceptions of Space and Place in a South African Informal Settlement 8. Human Spaces and Urban Livelihoods: Language use in Makoko Slum Settlement 9. The Unheralded Politics of Urban Spaces in Nigeria: Case of City Prostitution and Precarious Livelihood 10. Conflicts and Urban Dwellers in Jos: Issues in Rights to City 11. Modernizing Makadara Gardens: Development and the Struggle for Urban Space in Kenya
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