{"product_id":"african-cities-and-the-development-conundrum-9789004387928","title":"African Cities and the Development Conundrum","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210765099351,"sku":"9789004387928","price":84.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-cities-and-the-development-conundrum-9789004387928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}