Stephen Marr, Patience Mususa

DIY Urbanism in Africa (eBook, PDF)

Politics and Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often require residents to draw on their own resources, knowledge, and expertise to resolve these life and livelihood dilemmas.

DIY Urbanism in Africa investigates these practices. It develops a theoretical framework through which to analyze them, and it presents a series of case studies to demonstrate how residents invent new DIY tactics and strategies in response to security, place-making, or economic problems.

This book offers a timely critical intervention into literatures on urban development and politics in Africa. It is valuable to students, policymakers, and urban practitioners keen to understand the mechanisms and political implications of widespread dynamics now shaping Africa's expanding urban environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786999030
• Artikelnr.: 68440254

Autorenporträt

Stephen Marr is Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University and Associate Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute.

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