For the City Yet to Come - 9780822334347
Un libro in lingua di Simone A. M. edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2004
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Drawing on his nearly fifteen years of work in African cities—as an activist, teacher, development worker, researcher, and advisor to ngos and local governments—Simone provides a series of case studies illuminating the provisional networks through which most of Africa's urban dwellers procure basic goods and services. He examines informal economies and social networks in Pikine, a large suburb of Dakar, Senegal; in Winterveld, a neighborhood on the edge of Pretoria, South Africa; in Douala, Cameroon; and among Africans seeking work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He contextualizes these particular cases through an analysis of the broad social, economic, and historical conditions that created present-day urban Africa. For the City Yet to Come is a powerful argument that any serious attempt to reinvent African urban centers must acknowledge the particular history of these cities and incorporate the local knowledge reflected in already existing informal urban economic and social systems.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: For the City Yet to Come
- Sottotitolo: Changing African Life in Four Cities
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Simone A. M.
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '04
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Cities and towns Africa Sociology, Urban Africa Social change Africa
- Pagine: 297
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0822334348
- EAN-13: 9780822334347