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African Urban Economies

African Urban Economies

 

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2005
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Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9781403999474

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION Fragile Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Life in East and Southern Africa; D.F.Bryceson African Urban Economies: Searching for Sources of Sustenance; D.F.Bryceson Urban Growth and Urban Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa: Trends and Prospects; D.Potts PART 2: CITY ECONOMIES IN THE MAKING Image of the City in Mozambique: Civilization, Parasite, Engine of Growth or Place of Opportunity?; P.Jenkins Mombasa’s Missing Link: Marginalization or Mismanagement?; C.Rakodi Dualism in Kampala: Squalid Slums in a Royal Realm; A.Nuwagaba PART 3: URBAN LIVELIHOODS AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS Urban Poverty in East Africa: Comparing the Trajectories of Nairobi and Kampala; P.Amis Gikuyu Families in Nairobi at the End of the Millennium; Changing Economic and Social Patterns of Family Life; N.Nelson Resilience of a City in Civil War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu; R.Marchal PART 4: URBAN WELFARE, HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg; J.Beall Esther’s House: One Woman’s ’Home Economics’ in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe; A.Schlyter From Infrastructural Development to Privatization: Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Gaborone; O.Selowane Welfare through Civic Participation: Tabata Development Fund, Dar es Salaam; S.Ngware PART 5: CONCLUSION Vulnerability and Viability of East and Southern Africa’s Apex Cities; D.Bryceson

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