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African Cities - Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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African Cities - Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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As African societies come to live more and more in cities, they do
so in ways that challenge prevailing theories and models of urban
development in geography, sociology, anthropology, and planning.
This book uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back
to theoretical and practical concerns in urban studies and
disciplines that study cities, as well as in African studies. It
argues for a re-vision a seeing again, and a revising of how cities
in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and
African studies. Cities in Africa still are either ignored,
banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite
cities, or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with
urbanism in much of both the mainstream and even critical urban
literature. This book encourages African studies and urban studies
scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and
complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. It uses the author's
own research and a close reading of works by other scholars,
writers, and artists on a broad range of sixteen cities in Africa
to highlight six themes that help illuminate what is happening in
and across the region's cities.
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