The African Metropolis

Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-34106-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Global Africa

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and political relations forming within these new, often mega, cities.

The African Metropolis integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance are shaping cities across Africa, spanning from Nigeria and Ghana to Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The chapters pay particular attention to the voices and daily realities of those most vulnerable to urban transformations, and to questions such as: Who governs? Who should the city serve? Who has a right to the city? And how can the built spaces and contentious legacies of colonialism and prior development regimes be inclusively reconstructed?

In addition to highlighting critical contemporary debates, the book furthers our ability to examine the transformations taking place in cities of the global South, providing detailed accounts of local complexities while also generating insights that can scale up and across to similar cities around the world.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, urban development and human geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Falola, Bisola

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: The Politics of Space and Patterns of Segregation and Marginalization

1. Understanding the Zongo: Processes of Scoio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana

2. Analytical Views on Past and Present Official and Cultural Narratives of Asmara

3. ‘Urban Man in Jos’: Growth, Transiting Power and Authority in a Conflict Prone City

4. The Rise, Fall, and Reemergence of Ponte City

5. Urban Renewal Schemes and the Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria: A Study of Oke Ilu-Eri

6. Issues and Challenges in the Urban Renewal Programme of Lagos State

Part II: Everyday Claims to Space and Rights

7. Informal Citizens? Residents’ Perceptions of Space and Place in a South African Informal Settlement

8. Human Spaces and Urban Livelihoods: Language use in Makoko Slum Settlement

9. The Unheralded Politics of Urban Spaces in Nigeria: Case of City Prostitution and Precarious Livelihood

10. Conflicts and Urban Dwellers in Jos: Issues in Rights to City

11. Modernizing Makadara Gardens: Development and the Struggle for Urban Space in Kenya

Über Autor(innen)

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Bisola Falola studies spatial and social inequality as a researcher in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.