The African Metropolis (eBook, ePUB)

Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
Redaktion: Falola, Toyin; Falola, Bisola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance are shaping 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351653220
• Artikelnr.: 49040744

Autorenporträt

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