African urban economies Viability, vitality or vitiation?. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2005 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Adobe Ebook Reader
PART 1: INTRODUCTION Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa-- D.F.Bryceson African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustenance-- D.F.Bryceson Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects-- D.Potts PART 2: CITY ECONOMIES IN THE MAKING Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?-- P.Jenkins Mombasa's Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?-- C.Rakodi Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm-- A.Nuwagaba PART 3: URBAN LIVELIHOODS AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS Urban Poverty in East Africa: Comparing the Trajectories of Nairobi and Kampala-- P.Amis Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the End of the Millennium-- Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life-- N.Nelson Resilience of a City in Civil War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu-- R.Marchal PART 4: URBAN WELFARE, HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg-- J.Beall Esther's House: One Woman's 'Home Economics' in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe-- A.Schlyter From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone-- O.Selowane Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam-- S.Ngware PART 5: CONCLUSION Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa's Apex Cities-- D.Bryceson
'The volume offers a good introduction to urban, and especially urban dvelopment, themes in Africa'. - Bill Freund, Journal of Southern African Studies