Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities /

"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 nationa...

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格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2021.
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书本目录:
  • Preface / Göran Therborn
  • Introduction / Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse
  • Part I. The national in urban Africa. National projects in a postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaounde / Jean-Pierre Togolo ; Lip service : How voices from informal settlements were sidelined during the first decade of local democracy in South Africa / Liela Groenewald ; Centralised urban governance in the Greater Cairo City Region : A critical understanding of key challenges and responses / Amr Abdelaal, Hajer Awatta, Omar Nagati, Salwa Salman and Marwa Shykhon ; Traditional chiefs and traditional authority in Kinshasa / Philippe Ibaka Sangu
  • Part II. The popular in urban Africa. Local government as the stage for resistance : Strategies and tactics of opposing mega projects in Gauteng / Margot Rubin ; Popular protests and the limits of civil society in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, 2011 to 2016 / Ngonidzashe Marongwe ; 'We will be back to the street!' : Protest and the 'empires' of water in Nairobi / Wangui Kimari
  • Part III. The global in urban Africa. Africa's new Dubai? Intersections between the global and the local in the redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda, Angola / Sylvia Croese ; Urban governance and smart future cities in Nigeria : Lagos flagship projects as springboard? / Muyiwa Elijah Agunbiade, Oluwafemi Olajide and Hakeem Bishi ; The governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit / Meseret Kassahun ; Conclusion : African cities in the world of today and tomorrow / Göran Therborn and Alan Mabin.