Politics and the Urban Frontier : : Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa / / Tom Goodfellow

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socio-economic and spatial characteristics, with varying potential to fos...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (353 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. East Africa and the politics of late urbanization
  • 2. Transformation and divergence
  • 3. The making of urban territory
  • 4. The making of urban economies
  • 5. New urban visions and the infrastructure boom
  • 6. Urban property scapes
  • 7. Working the city
  • 8. The politics of noise and silence
  • 9. Politics and the urban frontier.