African Cities and the Development Conundrum.

• Superior document: International Development Policy
• Author: Carole Ammann; Till Förster (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ammann, Carole,; Förster, Till,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill | Nijhoff,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International Development Policy 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This 10th thematic issue 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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- African Cities and the Development Conundrum: Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone / Till Förster and Carole Ammann -- The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces / Edgar Pieterse -- Urban Governance -- Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview / Warren Smit -- Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda / Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin -- Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? / Claire Bénit-Gbaffou -- Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone -- Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? / Ton Dietz -- Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia / Lalli Metsola -- Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation / Sascha Delz -- Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? / Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu -- The Rural-Urban Continuum -- The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation / Garth Myers -- Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men’s Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) / Sebastian Prothmann -- The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi / Florian Stoll -- Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo / Karen Büscher.