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Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the te...

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Weitere Verfasser: Locatelli, Francesca, Nugent, Paul, 1962-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 3.
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Zusammenfassung:Contemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the tendency to forget that cities are also embedded in deeper historical processes that are integral to the framing of entitlements. Histories of migrancy and the creation of urban 'stranger' communities are fundamental in deciding who lives where and what this means, materially and socially. The gated communities that are springing up are often layered across older forms of urban segregation and/or segmentation. Urban water and food supply, the management of urban land claims, inequality and popular culture are closely examined. --From publisher's description.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:900416264X
9789004162648
9789047442486
9047442482
1282397737
9781282397736
9786612397738
661239773X
ISSN:1574-6925 ;

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