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245 0 0 _aRefractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities /
_cedited by Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse.
264 1 _aCape Town, South Africa :
_bAfrican Minds,
_c2021.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2021
264 4 _c©2021.
300 _a1 online resource (194 pages).
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tPreface /
_rGöran Therborn --
_tIntroduction /
_rSimon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse --
_gPart I.
_tThe national in urban Africa.
_tNational projects in a postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaounde /
_rJean-Pierre Togolo ;
_tLip service : How voices from informal settlements were sidelined during the first decade of local democracy in South Africa /
_rLiela Groenewald ;
_tCentralised urban governance in the Greater Cairo City Region : A critical understanding of key challenges and responses /
_rAmr Abdelaal, Hajer Awatta, Omar Nagati, Salwa Salman and Marwa Shykhon ;
_tTraditional chiefs and traditional authority in Kinshasa /
_rPhilippe Ibaka Sangu --
_gPart II.
_tThe popular in urban Africa.
_tLocal government as the stage for resistance : Strategies and tactics of opposing mega projects in Gauteng /
_rMargot Rubin ;
_tPopular protests and the limits of civil society in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, 2011 to 2016 /
_rNgonidzashe Marongwe ;
_t'We will be back to the street!' : Protest and the 'empires' of water in Nairobi /
_rWangui Kimari --
_gPart III.
_tThe global in urban Africa.
_tAfrica's new Dubai? Intersections between the global and the local in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola /
_rSylvia Croese ;
_tUrban governance and smart future cities in Nigeria : Lagos flagship projects as springboard? /
_rMuyiwa Elijah Agunbiade, Oluwafemi Olajide and Hakeem Bishi ;
_tThe governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit /
_rMeseret Kassahun ;
_tConclusion : African cities in the world of today and tomorrow /
_rGöran Therborn and Alan Mabin.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
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520 _a"Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters - the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development - make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities. Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa - today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe - is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication"--Publisher's description.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/82876/
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