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