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(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems: A Conceptual Approach 18\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban (Question) in Africa: A Review of the Literature 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Geographies of Urban Development 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRadical, Planetary, Comparative and Postcolonial Urbanisms 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Studies and Theory in\/for Africa 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualizing the Urban Question in Africa 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying the Approach 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Urbanization with Industrialization? Manufacturing in African Cities 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricizing Africa's Manufacturing Path Dependencies 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Present-day Manufacturing Horizon 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe China Factor in African Manufacturing 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming Manufacturing? Governance Challenges and Opportunities 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Governance of Production Regimes: National Urban Policies 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePathways for Industrialization in African Cities 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Impact of China and Other New Economic Powers on African Cities 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNEUP-African Relations Today: Key Channels of Impact 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImports 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure and Other Productive Investments 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing and Built Environments 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration, Travel and Knowledge Flows 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating the Channels and Their Impacts 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSino-African Relations in Africa Today: Specific Forms and Regime Impacts 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProduction Regimes 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption Regimes 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure Regimes 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Fantasy Urbanization in Africa: The Political Economy of Heterotopias 76\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Fantasy Urbanism in Africa 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Planning and Heterotopic Urbanism in Africa 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging Heterotopias in Africa 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEko Atlantic (Lagos), Nigeria 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKonza Technopolis (Nairobi), Kenya 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHOPE City (Accra), Ghana 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Neoliberal Heterotopias: Generative or Exclusionary Enclaves? 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. A Generative Urban Informal Sector? 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contours of Africa's Urban Informal Economies 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplicating the UIS Experience: Agbogbloshie Settlement, Accra 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating Africa's UIS in a Sociotechnical Systems Framework 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the UIS? ICTs, the 4IR and Makerspaces 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealizing a More Generative UIS: Collaborative Pathways for Transition 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Rise of the \"Gig Economy\" and the Impacts of Virtual Capital on African Cities (with Alicia Fortuin) 114\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the Gig Economy 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gig Economy in Africa 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide Sharing and the Evolution of Cape Town's Sociotechnical Regimes 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractices in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Regime 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoverning Ride-sharing: Power Asymmetries, Informal Contracts and Rating Schemes 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrecarious Platforms: Safety Issues in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Economy 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide-sharing and the Evolution of Sociotechnical Regimes in African Cities 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Making Cities Livable for All: Infrastructure and Service Provisioning Challenges 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scale and Scope of the Collective Goods Challenge in African Cities 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernance of Infrastructure Regimes: Speculation, Resource Constraints and Political Priorities 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSplintered Urbanization and the Challenge of Service Distribution 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural and Political Economic Drivers of Infrastructure Deficits in African Cities 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSkyTrain -- Accra's Utopian Mega Infrastructure Project 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bagamoyo Port Project, Tanzania 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKenya's Standard-Gauge Railway (SGR) 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAchieving Infrastructure Transformations: Recentering Use-Value 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Wrath of Capital or Nature? Threats to Cities from Climate to COVID-19 150\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Geography of Risk and Riskscapes 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRiskscapes, Cities and Sociotechnical Systems 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Change and Sociotechnical Regimes 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeat 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSea Level Rise and Coastal Erosion 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlooding 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrought 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Health Threats: Pandemics (Ebola and COVID-19) 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEbola 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCOVID-19 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Risk and Resilience in African Cities 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. The Green Economy and African Cities 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Green Economy and the Global South 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Green Economy Experience to Date 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Industrialization through SEZs? South Africa's Atlantis GreenTech Zone 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Economy Transitions and the Urban Informal Sector (UIS) 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. 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The predominantly rural continent is currently undergoing an urban revolution unlike any other, generally taking place without industrialization and often characterized by polarization, poverty, and fragmentation. While many cities have experienced construction booms and real estate speculation, others are marked by expanding informal economies and imploding infrastructures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eimbalanced and contested nature of the ongoing urban transition of Africa. Edited and authored by leading experts on the subject, this unique volume develops an original theory conceptualizing cities as sociotechnical systems constituted by production, consumption, and infrastructure regimes. 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(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems: A Conceptual Approach 18\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban (Question) in Africa: A Review of the Literature 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Geographies of Urban Development 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRadical, Planetary, Comparative and Postcolonial Urbanisms 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Studies and Theory in\/for Africa 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualizing the Urban Question in Africa 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying the Approach 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Urbanization with Industrialization? Manufacturing in African Cities 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricizing Africa's Manufacturing Path Dependencies 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Present-day Manufacturing Horizon 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe China Factor in African Manufacturing 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming Manufacturing? Governance Challenges and Opportunities 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Governance of Production Regimes: National Urban Policies 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePathways for Industrialization in African Cities 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Impact of China and Other New Economic Powers on African Cities 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNEUP-African Relations Today: Key Channels of Impact 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImports 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure and Other Productive Investments 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing and Built Environments 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration, Travel and Knowledge Flows 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating the Channels and Their Impacts 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSino-African Relations in Africa Today: Specific Forms and Regime Impacts 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProduction Regimes 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption Regimes 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure Regimes 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Fantasy Urbanization in Africa: The Political Economy of Heterotopias 76\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Fantasy Urbanism in Africa 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Planning and Heterotopic Urbanism in Africa 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging Heterotopias in Africa 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEko Atlantic (Lagos), Nigeria 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKonza Technopolis (Nairobi), Kenya 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHOPE City (Accra), Ghana 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Neoliberal Heterotopias: Generative or Exclusionary Enclaves? 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. A Generative Urban Informal Sector? 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contours of Africa's Urban Informal Economies 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplicating the UIS Experience: Agbogbloshie Settlement, Accra 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating Africa's UIS in a Sociotechnical Systems Framework 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the UIS? ICTs, the 4IR and Makerspaces 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealizing a More Generative UIS: Collaborative Pathways for Transition 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Rise of the \"Gig Economy\" and the Impacts of Virtual Capital on African Cities (with Alicia Fortuin) 114\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the Gig Economy 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gig Economy in Africa 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide Sharing and the Evolution of Cape Town's Sociotechnical Regimes 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractices in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Regime 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoverning Ride-sharing: Power Asymmetries, Informal Contracts and Rating Schemes 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrecarious Platforms: Safety Issues in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Economy 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide-sharing and the Evolution of Sociotechnical Regimes in African Cities 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. 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The Green Economy and African Cities 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Green Economy and the Global South 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Green Economy Experience to Date 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Industrialization through SEZs? South Africa's Atlantis GreenTech Zone 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Economy Transitions and the Urban Informal Sector (UIS) 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. 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John Broughton asks us to understand better their complex story and to rethink our prejudices. His accounts include extraordinary planners and architects who wished to elevate working men and women through design and the politicians, high and low, who shaped their work, the competing ideologies which have promoted state housing and condemned it, the economics which has always constrained our housing ideals, the crisis wrought by Right to Buy, and the evolving controversies around regeneration. He shows how the loss of the dream of good housing for all is a danger for the whole of society - as was seen in the fire in Grenfell Tower.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book celebrates an era during which dreams of shelter and security  for all-not just those who could afford to purchase it-were in large  part made a reality, and asks us if we oughtn't to consider reviving  that dream before it gets destroyed completely . 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Despite calls for the smart city agenda to be more citizen-centric and bottom-up in nature, how this translates into policy and initiatives is still weakly articulated and practiced. Indeed, there is little meaningful engagement by key stakeholders with respect to rights, citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, co-creation, and how the smart city might be productively reimagined and remade. \u003cbr\u003e  This book fills this lacuna by providing critical reflection on whether another smart city is possible and what such a city might look like, exploring themes such as how citizens are framed within it, the ethical implications of smart city systems, and whether injustices are embedded in city systems, infrastructures, services and their calculative practices.  Contributors question whether the need for order, and the priorities of capital and property rights, trump individual and collective liberty. 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Yet London is also a divided city, whose expansion has generated many planning challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book explores the tensions, complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas in London, but it also argues that public policy still matters and makes a significant difference to outcomes. The authors show how the market-led development of London has meant that the state supports more private-sector-led governance and this has given rise to widespread privatization of the city’s decision-making processes and policy implementation. As a key command and control centre in the global economy, London’s privatized model has become one for other megacities to emulate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together public regulation and property market activity under the lens of urban planning, providing fresh data, sharp observations and meticulous research. 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While the climate crisis is the most urgent, we also face deep social crises in housing, gender and race inequalities, the breakdown of our natural world, our energy consumption, and the deep ripples resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. These emergencies are playing out in acute ways in urban areas. Locked in to high-energy, high-resource use, cities are responsible for about three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions, have ecological and carbon footprints far bigger than their city limits, and are the beating heart of our pro-growth, unequal, consumer-saturated way of life. The city has to change, but how and by whom? Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a high-energy, thoughtful and exciting book that is certain to inspire students, activists and anybody who cares about the current climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nik Heynen, Professor of Geography, University of Georgia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThought provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fantastic handbook for anyone wanting to get into action and transform the future of their city – dive in.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal boiling is here! And that’s just one of the crises we face. This book urges a leap into action. It casts all city dwellers as emergency responders who can (metaphorically speaking) take up a hose or carry a stretcher. Inspiring and instructive, Paul Chatterton outlines practical ways for how to save our cities. There is no time to dither and much to do. If you want to know how we can haul ourselves away from disaster and begin to transform our urban environments – read this book.\u003c\/p\u003e -- J. K. Gibson-Graham, Community Economies Institute \u0026amp; Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a clever and useful account of where we are (a tough place) and how we might get out (by, you know, making some changes). Read it, reflect on it, and then act on it.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very unusual, very clever, very important book. In the face of the emergency created by changing climatic, social and ecological conditions, it asks simply: what can we do here and now to rescue cities and, by extension, the world? It is a very practical book, with detailed analysis and suggestions as to what to do. Face up to the awful reality that confronts us, but don’t panic, do something, change things! It is a book that shakes us, in a very helpful and stimulating way. Definitely a book to read, and to apply in practice.\u003c\/p\u003e -- John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power and Crack Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's easy to bury your head in the sand and think that technology will fix the climate crisis. Alternatively, you can feel that climate activists (Paul included) are very brave people, braver than me: they will fix it. You can think we are doomed: there is nothing I personally can do, the problems are overwhelming. This inspiring book shows that there are things we can all do, and perhaps we should focus more on them than worrying about our current predicament. A perfect guide to what is to be done.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Peter North, Professor of Alternative Economies, University of Liverpool\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn excellent and superbly written book, which persuasively argues that the transformational change demanded by the ecological, democratic and social crises that our cities face can be brought about by the professional experts – we, us, the residents of cities. The author lays out a path, starting from the question 'do we need to save cities?' (yes) to an in-depth exploration of how and by whom, underpinned by the premise that 'people make their own cities, but they do not make them under circumstances they choose'. 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