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Book SynopsisThis 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa’s urban development. Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Karen Büscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz, Ton Dietz, Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren Smit, and Florian Stoll.
Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 African Cities and the Development Conundrum Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone Till Förster and Carole Ammann 2 The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces Edgar Pieterse Part 2: Urban Governance 3 Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview Warren Smit 4 Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin 5 Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? The Difficult Reframing of State Mandates and Practices in the Post-apartheid Era Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Part 3: Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone 6 Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? Ton Dietz 7 Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia Lalli Metsola 8 Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation Addressing Contextual and Spatial Indifference in Design, Urban Planning and International Cooperation: A Case Study from Addis Ababa Sascha Delz 9 Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu Part 4: The Rural-Urban Continuum 10 The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation Garth Myers 11 Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men’s Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) Sebastian Prothmann 12 The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi Florian Stoll 13 Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo Karen Büscher Index
